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Decomposing the productivity differences between hospitals in the Nordic countries

Kittelsen, Sverre A.C.; Persson, Benny Adam; Rehnberg, Clas - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2014

bootstrapped Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) or Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) as frontier estimation methodology. …

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EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF PRODUCERS’ORGANIZATIONS (CASE OF SOUTH EASTERN AND CENTRAL PLANNING REGIONS OF BULGARIA)

ZAIMOVA, DARINA - In: Perspectives of Innovation in Economics and Business (PIEB) 4 (2010) 1, pp. 41-44

efficiency in production. The application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to the same …

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Efficiency of public spending in support of R&D activities

Cincera, Michele; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Thorwarth, Susanne - In: Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique L (2011) 1, pp. 131-139

: E22, O31, O57

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Evaluation of power input efficiency for China's typical cities based on the DEA and SFA models

He, Yong-xiu; Yang, Li-fang; Yang, Wei-hong; Wang, Yue-jin - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 32 (2009) 4, pp. 350-360

extended models of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) were used to analyse city input … about city efficiency was established, and the efficiencies of China's 23 typical cities in 2006 were evaluated based on DEA …, with a focus on the rationality of electric power input. We then employed SFA to analyse the city efficiency in 2006; we …

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Bank efficiency measurement using alternative techniques of frontier analysis: evidence from India

Kumar, Muneesh; Arora, Padmasai - In: Afro-Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting 2 (2010) 1, pp. 40-69

2006-2007 using two popular frontier analysis techniques, namely data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier … analysis (SFA), as alternative techniques of efficiency measurement. The paper offers evidence in support of conflicting …

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Efficiency and effectiveness in the urban public transport sector: a critical review with directions for future research

Daraio, Cinzia; Diana, Marco; Di Costa, Flavia; … - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e … - 2014

This paper proposes a self-contained reference for both policy makers and scholars who want to address the problem of efficiency and effectiveness of Local Public Transport (LPT) in a sound empirical way. Framing economic efficiency studies into a transport planning perspective, it offers a...

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The efficiency of Norwegian road toll companies

Welde, Morten; Odeck, James - In: Utilities Policy 19 (2011) 3, pp. 162-171

methods are applied for this purpose: data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). The data … approach used i.e., DEA and SFA, as these may give very different results. …

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A meta-analysis of DEA and SFA studies of the technical efficiency of seaports: A comparison of fixed and random-effects regression models

Odeck, James; Bråthen, Svein - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 46 (2012) 10, pp. 1574-1585

published studies, (3) studies that used nonparametric DEA models depict higher MTE scores as compared with those that used SFA … factors: the frontier methodology used, which essentially are the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the Stochastic Frontier … Analysis (SFA); regions where seaports are situated; type of data used; number of observations; and the total number of …

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International comparisons of the technical efficiency of the hospital sector: Panel data analysis of OECD countries using parametric and non-parametric approaches

Varabyova, Yauheniya; Schreyögg, Jonas - In: Health Policy 112 (2013) 1, pp. 70-79

nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) and parametric stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Internal and external validity of … specifications. The panel-data analyses using two-step DEA and one-stage SFA show that countries, which have higher health care …

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Assessing the Performance of Local Government

Stevens, Philip Andrew - In: National Institute Economic Review 193 (2005) 1, pp. 90-101

We consider the measurement of performance in the public sector in general, focussing on local government and the provision of library services by English local authorities in particular. We will consider two methodologies that assess the performance of local authorities in terms of the...

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