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Quality Production and Quality Indicators in Intermediate Products
Zago, Angelo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2004
The paper proposes a methodology to measure the characteristics of intermediate products when quality is multidimensional. It uses a general representation of the multioutput technology via directional distance functions and constructs quality indicators based on differences. The quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005641912
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International Benchmarking of Electricity Distribution Utilities
Førsund, Finn R; Edvardsen, Dag F. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2001
Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628198
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International benchmarking of electricity distribution utilities
Førsund, Finn R.; Edvardsen, Dag Fjeld - 2001
Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284240
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International benchmarking of electricity distribution utilities.
Edvardsen, Dag Fjeld; Førsund, Finn R. - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2001
Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005427050
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An Evaluation of Cross-Efficiency Methods, Applied to Measuring Warehouse Performance
Balk, Bert M. - 2019
In this paper method and practice of cross-efficiency calculation is discussed. The main methods proposed in the literature are tested not on a set of artificial data but on a realistic sample of input-output data of European warehouses. The empirical results show the limited role which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900472
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Measuring Productivity and Efficiency of Seaports in India using DEA technique
Monteiro, Jeronimo Guilherme Remigio - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 2 (2018) 3, pp. 155-174
levels of productivity and efficiency of seaports in India. This paper applies DEA technique to assess productivity and … efficiency of seaports in India. Design/Research methods: DEA technique is extensively used in the literature of economics to … a period of time. DEA is a frontier model which is non-parametric since no functional specification or form is required …
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Growth of Factor Productivity in the Turkish Manufacturing Industry at Provincial Level
Karadag, Metin; Onder, A. Ozlem; Deliktas, Ertugrul - 2005
This paper estimates the total factor productivity (TFP) change of the private and public sectors in the Turkish manufacturing industry in the selected provinces for 1990-98. It uses data envelopment analysis to compute Malmquist productivity indices decomposed into two components, namely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064333
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Improving the Efficiency of Metropolitan Area Transit by Joint DEA of Its Multiple Providers
Barnum, Darold T. - 2009
This paper provides transit policy makers and managements with a protocol for analyzing the efficiency of an urban area's non-rail transit when multiple types of service are operated. Procedures are described for estimating (a) the individual technical efficiency of each non-rail transit type,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160115
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On the inconsistency of the Malmquist-Luenberger index
Aparicio, Juan; Pastor, Jesús; Zofío, José Luis - Departamento de Análisis Económico: Teoría … - 2013
Apart from the well-known weaknesses of the standard Malmquist productivity index related to infeasibility and not accounting for slacks, already addressed in the literature, we identify a new and significant drawback of the Malmquist-Luenberger index decomposition that questions its validity as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010602085
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Dynamic industry productivity measures: The case of thermal electricity generation by South Korean plants 2001-2008 and in Chinese regions 2000-2014
Førsund, Finn R.; Heshmati, Almas; Wang, Ke - 2018
A framework for applied production theory should focus on the crucial features of the industry to be studied. First of all, to be useful for a dynamic study, a distinction has to be made between the theoretical production possibilities before investment takes place and the actual empirical...
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