This paper analyzes the relationship between intermunicipal cooperation and efficiency of public service provision. The …. We employ a two-stage DEA (DEA = Data Envelopment Analysis) bootstrap approach to calculate relative efficiency measures … municipalities score lower in terms of technical efficiency than self-providing and contracting municipalities. The scope for …

This study explains the differences and variances in the efficiency scores of the Vietnamese banking sector retrieved … mainly based on frontier efficiency measurements, which essentially are Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic … efficiency, whilst the opposite is true for the data type, and sample size. …

This paper investigates the size-efficiency relation of European cooperative banks during the 2006-2015 period. We … cooperative banks from 12 European countries. This work extends the existing literature by focusing on shape of size-efficiency … European cooperative banks are significantly more cost efficient than their bigger peers and that the size-efficiency relation …

Productivity and efficiency are key performance indicators of improved seeds. Efficiency differences explain part of … the variation in productivity. Improved seeds may affect efficiency because farmers often do not apply inputs at optimum …. Improved seeds therefore not only directly affect productivity but also indirectly through efficiency. If productivity and …

envelopment analysis method. It emphasizes the importance of this nonparametric approach to macroeconomic efficiency analysis and …

background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance …

Efficiency is an important consideration for those who manage public services. Costs vary with output and with a … these factors into account, costs vary across providers because of differences in efficiency. Such differences offer clues … about good practice that can lead to improvements in the system as a whole. The role of efficiency is illustrated by …

panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of “economics …” and “social science, mathematical methods” in the Web of Science database. This efficiency is measured in terms of the …

We stress some efficiency aspects of monopolistic competition justifying it on account of its tendency to innovate and … the questionable excess capacity paradigm. Some further efficiency aspects revealed are product variety and transaction …