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Improving efficiency through consolidation of jurisdictions? Evidence from the cantons of Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe K.; Elias, George; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012
Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the years 2000 to 2004. Aggregate output performance indicators for four local government activities … (administration, education, health, and transportation) are used to measure technical and scale efficiency and to derive DEA scores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817292
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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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Environmental assessment by DEA radial measurement: U.S. coal-fired power plants in ISO (Independent System Operator) and RTO (Regional Transmission Organization)
Sueyoshi, Toshiyuki; Goto, Mika - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) 3, pp. 663-676
The economic concept of weak and strong disposability on undesirable outputs dominated the previous discussions on DEA … efficiency under natural and managerial disposability by DEA radial models. To document the practicality of the proposed DEA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010571709
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A Non-Parametric Examination of Real Estate Mutual Fund Efficiency
Anderson, Randy I.; Brockman, Christopher M.; … - In: International Journal of Business and Economics 3 (2004) 3, pp. 225-238
research has focused on the efficiency in this arena. In this study, we employ data envelopment analysis (DEA), a non …-parametric statistical procedure, to assess the relative performance of RMFs for the years 1997¡V2001. DEA is a procedure that tests whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600156
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Technical efficiency of hospital psychiatric care in Bulgaria – assessment using Data Envelopment Analysis
Kundurjiev, T.; Salchev, Petko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
hospital care. We used the method of data envelopment analysis (DEA), which finds increasing application in many spheres of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839511
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Examining the relationship between firm internationalization and firm performance: A nonparametric analysis
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper by performing a bootstrapped Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) tries to constitute to the existing literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151584
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Terminal units in DEA: Definition and determination
Krivonozhko, Vladimir; Førsund, Finn R.; Lychev, Andrey V. - 2011
Applications of the DEA models show that inadequate results may arise in some cases, two of these inadequacies being: a …) too many efficient units may appear in some DEA models; b) a DEA model may show an inefficient unit from the point of view … concept of a terminal unit is introduced for such units. A method for improving the adequacy of DEA models based on terminal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285549
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Provision of public goods in a federalist country: Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315507
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Improving efficiency through consolidation of jurisdictions? Evidence from the Cantons of Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe K.; Elias, George; Zweifel, Peter - 2012
Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the years 2000 to 2004. Aggregate output performance indicators for four local government activities … (administration, education, health, and transportation) are used to measure technical and scale efficiency and to derive DEA scores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316907
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Public Good Provision in a Federalist Country: Tiebout Competition, Fiscal Equalization, and Incentives for Efficiency in Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe K.; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008
jurisdictions applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Second, it relates ef- ficiency scores to a fiscal equalization scheme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005756622