In this study, we explore the pattern of efficiency among enterprises in China’s 29 provinces across different … efficiency distributions, and conducting a bootstrapped truncated regression analysis. We find evidence of interesting … differences in efficiency levels among various ownership groups, especially for foreign and local ownership, which have different …

This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector …

Efficiency of hospitals belongs among frequently discussed topics of public policy. This paper deals with a … nonparametric model for efficiency evaluation of hospitals - data envelopment analysis (DEA). DEA evaluates efficiency of production …

decomposition into technical change and efficiency change components. The analysis is undertaken using the data envelopment analysis … agricultural sector was due to good progress in technical efficiency rather than technical progress. The region suffered a …

, countries with similar levels of spending may end up with differing levels of human development. We measure this efficiency …

This study focuses on examining the level of technical efficiency and the efficiency changes in SMEs in Thailand from … obtained from the Ministry of Commerce's database. The results found that Thai SMEs have quite low technical efficiency score … about 20-24% during 2008 to 2010. In addition, SMEs in manufacturing sector is the most efficient SMEs with the efficiency …

Assessing the efficiency of the whole system of Local Government tiers – Regions, Provinces, Municipalities, other … in the conventional measures of efficiency and standard cost. The integration of Data Envelopment Analysis with Principal … makes possible to separate quantity from quality components in efficiency indices. …

This study examines the technical efficiency of schools in Australia and its determinants using NAPLAN test results of … region, state and territory in which the school is located. We estimate that the average technical efficiency score of … target for schools in the sample to reach the efficiency frontier is 100 NAPLAN points. Our results suggest that eliminating …

of efficiency. In the empirical analysis we revisit the traditional Structure–Conduct–Performance paradigm and we … on interest rate margins. In contrast, we produce evidence suggesting that greater efficiency and competitive markets …