Hospital productivity has been a research topic for over two decades. We expand on this research to include measures of dis/economies of scope. By using the Free Coordination Hull (FCH) we are able to determine if hospitals in our sample can become more efficient if they provide more services...

Tunisian’s public hospitals have been often deemed inefficiency, yet unfortunately no empirical study has demonstrated the breadth and/or depth of this inefficiency. To address this issue, we develop a non parametric methodology to measure efficiency at patient level for five cardiology wards....

In Solow’s model the income convergence between countries arises from two main sources: a capital deepening effect resulting from the diminishing returns of the production technology and a technological transfer/diffusion effect related to Total Factor Productivity (TFP) differences. A large...

In this paper, we introduce two new indicators of the operational and the financial performance of bank branches networks. We develop an alternative approach to the traditional productivity measures to take into account size, environmental and structural effects in the benchmark process. We use...

This note generalizes analytical relationships among activity variables of DEA models previously derived by Boussemart, Briec and Leleu (2007). We relax the asumption of constant returns to scale by showing that the key results hold under a weaker asumption of homogeneity. We use the notion of...

The duality between measures of economic and technical efficiency has been extensively studied in the productive efficiency analysis. This duality ensures a meaningful interpretation of technical efficiency as economic efficiency evaluated at the most favorable shadow prices. This paper...

The duality between measures of economic and technical efficiency has been extensively studied in the productive efficiency analysis. This duality ensures a meaningful interpretation of technical efficiency as economic efficiency evaluated at the most favorable shadow prices. This paper...

Dans ce papier, nous proposons deux nouveaux indicateurs pour mesurer la performance opérationnelle et la performance financière des réseaux d’agences bancaires. Nous développons une approche alternative aux mesures classiques de productivité pour prendre en compte des effets de taille,...

Dans ce papier nous discutons l’adaptabilité des indicateurs de performance opérationnelle à l’environnement organisationnel, décisionnel et stratégique des entités évaluées. L’application empirique est réalisée sur une population de 1585 agences bancaires à partir de données...