This paper evaluates the efficiency of the telecommunications sector in Latin America. The great dynamism acquired by … Latin as well as to assess its efficiency and to what extent it accounted as a dynamic component in the telecommunications … measure on the results of the privatizations in terms of efficiency is obtained. To measure the efficiency of the …

efficiency of health centres in Finland between 1990 and 2003. To address potential non-random or endogenous treatment assignment … we also utilize propensity score difference-in-difference approach. For cost efficiency estimation we use the non …-parametric order-alpha method that is more suitable for small samples than the traditional efficiency estimators. Our results show that …

regression is fitted to identify which elements suggested in the literature are the most influential on the technical efficiency … levels of expenditure and basic health achievements; (b) that spatial patterns of efficiency are correlated to economic … performance, but also to locally specific relevant differences; (c) and that positive determinants of efficiency are given by …

We measure technical efficiency in R&D of Italian regions with the aim of understanding whether the variation in … transport infrastructure endowment across regions might be the cause of efficiency disparities. We use a semi-parametric method … where in the first step we estimate bootstrapped efficiency scores through DEA. In the second step, efficiency scores are …