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Efficiency measurement in Greek dairy farms: Stochastic frontier vs. data envelopment analysis
Theodoridis, A. M.; Psychoudakis, A. - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 1 (2008) 2, pp. 53-66
Analysis (DEA) have become very popular in the analysis of productive efficiency. This paper undertakes a comparison of … sample of 165 dairy farms in Greece. However, the aim of this paper is not only to compare estimates of technical efficiency … obtained from two approaches, but also to produce efficiency data about the farms studied, which have implications for …
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Maschinenbau: mittelgroße Unternehmen mit höchsten Einsparpotentialen
Kritikos, Alexander S.; Schiersch, Alexander - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 51/52, pp. 895-899
Der deutsche Maschinenbau ist seit langem sowohl national als auch international sehr erfolgreich. Wie in kaum einem zweiten Sektor dominieren zudem mittelgroße Unternehmen. Eine erste Analyse des DIW Berlin zeigt, dass sich dieser Erfolg nicht auf eine volle Ausschöpfung vorhandener...
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Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany
Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - In: BuR - Business Research 2 (2009) 2, pp. 115-145
The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non …-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1 …-step truncated linear regression model with bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores as dependent variable. The results show that public …
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Zur Messung von Forschungsleistungen in der Effizienzanalyse: Drittmittel versus Publikationen
Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - In: ifo Schnelldienst 71 (2018) 16, pp. 26-30
In der Literatur zur Effizienz von Hochschulen werden entweder die eingeworbenen Drittmittel oder die Anzahl der Publikationen als Indikator für institutionelle Forschungsleistungen verwendet. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, ob beide Indikatoren zu einer ähnlichen oder unterschiedlichen...
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Zur Effizienz der Hochschulen in den ost- und westdeutschen Flächenländern
Eck, Alexander; Gralka, Sabine; Heller, Julia - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 22 (2015) 2, pp. 33-41
Die Effizienz der Hochschulen in den Flächenländern Ost und West liegt im Durchschnitt auf annähernd gleichem Niveau. Innerhalb der ostdeutschen Flächenländer sind auf Länderebene zwischen den Universitäten jedoch erhebliche Effizienzunterschiede festzustellen. Zu diesen Ergebnissen kommt...
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Measuring and decomposing sources of productivity performance in India's paper and pulp industry under liberalized regime: A nonparametric approach
Ray, Sarbapriya - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 5 (2012) 1, pp. 147-171
change and technical efficiency change in India's paper industry. The prime objective of this article is to assess the impact … technical efficiency and technical change in this particular manufacturing sector. The paper applies Malmquist Productivity … stagnation in technical efficiency. Non-responding technical efficiency change and the deteriorating technical change were the …
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Technical efficiency of banks in Central and Eastern Europe
Horvátová, Eva - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 6 (2018) 3, pp. 1-25
The purpose of this article is to examine what affected the technical efficiency of banks in Central and Eastern … European countries during the financial crisis. Firstly, this article analyzes the technical efficiency of banks in the … selected countries in Central and Eastern Europe during the period 2006-2013. In this article, the technical efficiency of …
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Does happiness matter to health system efficiency? A performance analysis
See, Kok Fong; Yen, Siew Hwa - In: Health Economics Review 8 (2018) 33, pp. 1-10
contribution of people's happiness to health system efficiency across countries. Technical efficiency (TE) scores are estimated … mortality index. The efficiency scores are regressed against three explanatory variables: happiness index, population density … that happiness is one of the factors that contributes significantly to health system efficiency. The study also revealed …
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The Impact of Regional Economic Conditions on the Efficiency of Savings Banks in the Light of Demographic Change
Conrad, Alexander; Neuberger, Doris; Gamarra, Lucinda Trigo - In: Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital 47 (2014) 4, pp. 533-570
This paper examines the influence of environmental factors on the technical and revenue efficiency of German savings … banks. It employs a two-step approach, using, first, data envelopment analysis to calculate efficiency and, second …, multivariate regressions to examine the influence of regional economic conditions on efficiency. Taking into account demographic …
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Technical efficiency of neonatal health services in primary health care facilities of Southwest Ethiopia: A two-stage data envelopment analysis
Yitbarek, Kiddus; Abraham, Gelila; Adamu, Ayinengida; … - In: Health Economics Review 9 (2019) 27, pp. 1-9
this study was to assess the technical efficiency of primary health care units providing neonatal health services in … district health offices and finance and economic cooperation offices. Technical efficiency scores were calculated using data … envelopment analysis software version 2.1. Tobit regression was then applied to identify determinants of technical efficiency …
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