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Global railway passenger transports -- efficiency analysis from period of 1980-2004

Hilmola, Olli-Pekka - In: International Journal of Logistics Economics and … 2 (2009) 1, pp. 23-39

passenger operations have shown improvement after year 1990, this concerns particularly passenger-kms DEA model. …

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Malmquist indices of productivity change in Botswana's financial institutions

Moffat, Boitumelo; Valadkhani, Abbas; Harvie, Charles - In: Global Business and Economics Review 11 (2009) 1, pp. 28-43

The productivity and efficiency of the financial sector is pivotal to the attainment of economic growth and development in developed and developing economies alike, and is of particular interest in the wake of financial sector reform and restructuring. This study applies the Malmquist...

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Ecological Footprint forecasting and estimating using neural networks and DEA

Wu, Dexiang; Liang, Liang - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 9 (2009) 3, pp. 249-258

's natural capital: first using Genetic Algorithm Neural Networks (GANN) model to forecast the EF; second, employing the DEA …

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Os Contratos de Licenciamento e a Eficiência Técnica dos Setores Industriais Brasileiros: Uma Análise à Luz do Método de Fronteira Estocástica e da Análise Envoltória de Dados (DEA...

Mendonça, Elvino de Carvalho; Oliveira, André Luis … - In: Economia 7 (2006) 3, pp. 531-560

The paper addresses the relationship between licenses and technical efficiency in a set of Brazilian industrial sectors. The main hypothesis is that licenses are negatively related with technical efficiency. To test this hypothesis, a stochastic and a non-parametric frontier were estimated for...

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Measuring Productivity

Gatto, M. Del; Liberto, A. Di; Petraglia, C. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2008

Quantifying productivity is a conditio sine qua non for empirical analysis in a number of research fields. The identification of the measure that best fits with the specific goals of the analysis, as well as being data-driven, is currently complicated by the fact that an array of methodologies...

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Testing DEA Models of Efficiency in Norwegian Psychiatric Outpatient Clinics

Kittelsen, Sverre A.C.; Magnussen, Jon - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009

analyses cross-sectional data on the psychiatric outpatient clinics of Norway using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) non …

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Inkludering av pasienters vurderinger i en effektivitetsanalyse av norske allmen-praktikere - korrigering av feil i variable i DEA

Kjæserud, Guri Galtung - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009

på kvalitet i effektivitetsanalyser av allmenpraktikere. Effektivitetsverdiene er beregnet ved DEA metoden, med … dataprogrammet Frisch DEA og supplerende analyser er foretatt ved hjelp av EXCEL og SPSS. Dataene som ligger til grunn er individata … modellen som benyttes i dette arbeidet. <p> Som et alternativ til inkluderingen av pasientenes vurderinger i DEA …

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Explaining Production Inefficiency in China’s Agriculture using Data Envelope Analysis and Semi-Parametric Bootstrapping

Monchuk, Daniel C.; Zhuo, Chen - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008

(DEA), and then in the second stage, variation in the resulting efficiency scores are explained using a truncated …

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How "efficient" are dairy farms in mountain areas?

Ortner, Karl M. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

Pure Technical Efficiency scores of Austrian dairy farms are estimated econometrically on the basis of data envelopment analysis and bootstrapping. In a second stage, using the same assumptions on the distribution of error terms, the distances of farms to their production possibility curve are...

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Measuring efficiency with neural networks. An application to the public sector

Delgado, Francisco J. - In: Economics Bulletin 3 (2005) 15, pp. 1-10

In this note we propose the artificial neural networks for measuring efficiency as a complementary tool to the common techniques of the efficiency literature. In the application to the public sector we find that the neural network allows to conclude more robust results to rank decision-making units.

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