technology". By separating the production of undesirable outputs from that of desirable outputs, not only do we ensure that … index also provides a meaningful way to decompose environmental productivity into environmental technological and efficiency …

panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of “economics …” and “social science, mathematical methods” in the Web of Science database. This efficiency is measured in terms of the …

-sample performance of our estimators. An empirical study of efficiency trends in the largest banks operating in the U.S. from 1990 to …

Efficiency is an important consideration for those who manage public services. Costs vary with output and with a … these factors into account, costs vary across providers because of differences in efficiency. Such differences offer clues … about good practice that can lead to improvements in the system as a whole. The role of efficiency is illustrated by …

This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of … 2004 and 2011. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are used to estimate the efficiency …, that the average annual efficiency estimates for all Syndicates are plausible and they follow three-year cycles. Secondly …

background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance …

envelopment analysis method. It emphasizes the importance of this nonparametric approach to macroeconomic efficiency analysis and …

This study explains the differences and variances in the efficiency scores of the Vietnamese banking sector retrieved … mainly based on frontier efficiency measurements, which essentially are Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic … efficiency, whilst the opposite is true for the data type, and sample size. …

, using the Bayesian approach. Then it derives an expression to measure scale efficiency from this estimated function. Finally …, it shows measurements of three components of productivity change. The first component, technical efficiency change, is … measured as a ratio of distances along a chosen input-output vector. The third component, scale efficiency change, is …