change in best practice and change in (in)efficiency. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 …

Lack of party competition may impair government efficiency. If the voters are ideologically predisposed to cast their … their election prospects. The current paper analyzes efficiency in Norwegian local governments. Efficiency has been measured … data on the ideological preferences of elected politicians. Lack of party competition reduces efficiency, the effect being …

This study investigated the relationship between hospital specialization and technical efficiency using different … that specialization as quantified by our novel measures has effects on efficiency that are the opposite of those obtained …

, no clear conclusion can yet be drawn for Austria in this regard. As previous Austrian efficiency studies rely on data … examine the impact of ownership type on efficiency, we apply a Data Envelopment Analysis which extends the existing literature … in two respects: first, it evaluates the efficiency of the Austrian acute care sector, using data on 128 public and …

estimates. A very simple example is given to illustrate the statistical issues underlying nonparametric efficiency measurement …

the paper, mathematical programming frontier methods are used to investigate the production efficiency of Essex lay … efficiency. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997 …

affected by regulation. This paper demonstrates how parametric and nonparametric efficiency measures can be employed to produce …

for meaningful first- stage efficiency estimates and second-stage regression. After some confusion in the literature … are appropriate. The results reveal a significant relation between efficiency and all the variables analysed and that …

Technical progress and production efficiency are central to economic growth and international competitiveness. However … understand the extent and importance of technical progress and efficiency in Turkish manufacturing industries. Stochastic …-dependent variables in the production function. Sector-specific factors which influence technical efficiency of manufacturing plants are …