Efficiency is one of the most decisive factors in an industry’s productivity and competitiveness. However, Spanish and … international economic literature has given little attention to measuring efficiency in some fields of activity, like the lodging … industry due to the intangible nature of its services. The aim of this paper is to measure the technical efficiency of a sample …

In this study we tried to capture the efficiency of the activity of constructions for the Western European countries … activities in construction is related to the fact that their efficiency is closely correlated with the evolution of economic … these companies were strongly hit by the economic and financial problems in 2008, receiving the lowest scores of efficiency …

Corporation (LIC) of India. The findings show a significant heterogeneity visible in the cost efficiency scores within 19 years … efficiency in 2000-01 is the basis for an optimism that LIC may be beginning to benefit from such a modernization, which will …

This paper provides radial measurements of efficiency for the production process possessing multi-components under … consistency in estimating the efficiency and returns to scale. Moreover, we introduce two homogeneity conditions, which clarify …

applied in incentive regulation practice, where the assessment of efficiency plays a major role in regulation design and … and SFA efficiency scores, have certain practical merits and might offer an useful alternative to strict reliance on a …, but can also improve the precision of efficiency estimation. Based on our results, we give recommendations for the …

production units. With regards to the efficiency evaluation, both the models are found to give statistically significant … ‘technical’ and ‘technical and scale’ efficiency ratings …

, for determining efficiency in the presence of radial and nonradial inputs or outputs. Further extension of the scheme … occurred to address nonseparable desirable and undesirable outputs. Applying the model to measure the overall efficiency of U … overall management and environmental efficiency between 1996 and 2000 …

This paper examines the influence of environmental factors on technical, cost, scale and revenue efficiency of German … differentiates between declining and growing regions. Regional and demographic factors explain part of the variation in efficiency … levels. Population density and branch penetration positively affect efficiency in growing regions. A negative impact of …

. This paper deals with a comparative analysis of the efficiency and profitability of cooperatives and IOFs, which takes into … oil producing companies in Andalusia and the methodology used is twofold: DEA, in the case of efficiency, and probit … results point to a superiority of the cooperatives in terms of both efficiency and overall profitability compared to the IOFs …