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 …

metafrontera en el que la eficiencia de las corporaciones locales se evalúa tras clasificarlas en distintos grupos de acuerdo con …Over the last few years, many studies have analyzed the productive efficiency of local governments in different … doubts about the plausibility of an unconditional analysis. This study tackles these problems by proposing a metafrontier …

españoles. La metodología frontera no paramétrica DEA se ha empleado para evaluar los niveles de eficiencia con los que operan … cambios en la eficiencia y el cambio técnico. / This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor … productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric frontier DEA methodology has been used to assess the levels of efficiency of the …

Envolvente de Datos o DEA, técnica no paramétrica de evaluación de la eficiencia productiva que se ha revelado en los últimos … años como la más utilizada para la evaluación de la eficiencia productiva en los servicios públicos. …

Hypothesis testing and statistical precision in the context of nonparametric efficiency and productivity measurement … noticeable in the case of banking efficiency studies, where the literature is immense. In this paper, we explore productivity … growth and productive efficiency for Spanish savings banks over the (initial) post-deregulation period 1992?1998 using Data …

In this work a non parametric approach is used in order to evaluate the relative efficiency of a sample of firms … eficiencia relativa de una muestra de empresas productoras de artículos de madera y muebles, en presencia de outputs no deseables …

background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance … banking sector applying different scientific methods. Nonparametric or parametric techniques, such as DEA with the Malmquist …

insurance. We employ the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute the efficiency of Takaful operators, while Panzar-Rosse (P …This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the efficiency and competitiveness of the Takaful … to estimating provisions for outstanding claims, as this factor is negatively influencing the efficiency of Takaful …

objectively evaluate the efficiency of 42 top scorers who have played in the UEFA Champions League (UCL) over a period of six … years, based on official match-play “multi-input and output” statistics, using input- and output oriented DEA models. …

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is applied to Major League Baseball salary and performance data from 1985 to 2006 in …