variable productive inputs in a standard DEA linear problem to determine fishing capacity and observed capacity utilization in … a first stage. A standard DEA linear program is run in a second stage to determine efficient capacity utilization … in the paper to measure fishing capacity and capacity utilization. The first procedure estimates an SFA model without …

the panel: the nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA), the free disposal hull (FDH), and, as a parametric approach …, the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). We then measure and decompose productivity change with Malmquist indices. We find …

determinants. The authors use for this purpose the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method and the analysis of the Stochastic … Frontier Analysis (SFA) method for calculating the technical efficiency scores. The results reveal similar trends for both …

strategies of cost efficiency and economies of scale. Concretely, we contrast the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA …) with the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and a distribution-free identification based on time-invariant heterogeneity …

2004 and 2011. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are used to estimate the efficiency …

productivity measures are obtained using data envelopment analysis (DEA) on a comparable dataset of 728 Nordic hospitals in the … specifications, including stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). The SFA approach in performed using the Battese & Coelli (1995) one … second stage in the DEA approach. Results indicate that the hospital reform in Norway seems to have improved the level of …

Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) techniques, we find that mean relative efficiency increased … efficiency rankings of banks as estimated by DEA and SFA. Finally, an international benchmarking exercise using data from 203 …

the panel: the nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA), the free disposal hull (FDH), and, as a parametric approach …, the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). We then measure and decompose productivity change with Malmquist indices. We find …

Islamic banks. It is restricted to studies using parametric (SFA) and non-parametric (DEA) models. It finds that they leave …