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Technical Efficiency of Maize Production in Nigeria: Parametric and Non-Parametric Approach

Hassan, Yusha’u; Abdullah, Amin Mahir bin; Ismail, … - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 04 (2014) 04

2010.Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) were used to estimate the technical efficiency … technical efficiency under stochastic frontier analysis, technical efficiency of DEA constant return to scale and technical … efficiency of DEA variable return to scale assumptions, respectively. These showed that the efficiency scores obtained from DEA …

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Using DEA to compare the efficiency of planned forest management actions to actual forest management actions

Eyvindson, K.; Kangas, A.; Niskanen, Y. - In: Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the …, 44

resources. As a method to compute the efficiency of the DMs actual choices, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to evaluate …. In traditional DEA applications, the evaluation for efficiency is done through a relative comparison of a set of actual …

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An analysis of the factors associated with technical and scale efficiency of Irish dairy farms

Kelly, E; Shalloo, L; Geary, U; Kinsella, A.; Thorne, F; … - In: International Journal of Agricultural Management 02 (2013) 3

calculated using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Technical efficiency was on average 0.757 under constant returns to scale (CRS …

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A DEA-financial technology: prior to portfolio analysis with DEA

Tarnaud, Albane - IÉSEG School of Management, Université Catholique de Lille - 2015

methodology with DEA to the analysis of portfolios of financial assets. We acknowledge the previous applications and show how two … approaches have been adopted until now in the literature: a ‘DEA-production’ approach inherited from production theory and a ‘DEA … also identify which underlying criteria are used for input and output selection. As a basis for a new ‘DEA …

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Technical and Scale Efficiency of Tanzanian Saving and Credit Cooperatives

Marwa, Nyankomo; Aziakpono, Meshach - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2015

In measuring technical and scale efficiency of Tanzanian Saving and Credit Cooperatives we used a sample of 103 audited financial statements during 2011. Data envelopment analysis was employed to explore the efficiency scores. The results show that average scores are 42%, 52% and 76% for...

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URBAN LOCATION AND THE SUCCESS OF CASINOS IN FIVE STATES

Lambert, Thomas E.; Srinivasan, Arun Kumar; Dufrene, Uric B. - In: International Journal of Management and Marketing Research 3 (2010) 3, pp. 1-16

Over the last 30 years or so, many states in the US have legalized casino gambling/gaming in an effort to boost tax revenues. Four mid-western (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri) and two southern (Louisiana and Mississippi) states adopted legalized gaming in the form of riverboat casinos due...

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Measuring the efficiency of heritage institutions: Example of historic buildings in Czech Republic

Patek, Zdenek; Straka, Michal - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

of these objects is efficient. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a widely applied tool in efficiency evaluation for …

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AN IMPROVED MODEL FOR ASSESSING THE FDH-COST EFFICIENCY

PARYAB, KHALIL; SHIRAZ, RASHED KHANJANI; JALALZADEH, LEILA - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR) 29 (2012) 04, pp. 1250022-1

Recently Leleu [A linear programming framework for free disposal hull (FDH) technologies and cost functions: Primal and dual models] presented a linear model for assessing the FDH-cost function with various returns to scale assumptions. He stated that economic inefficiency can be computed as the...

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Localised Technological Progress And Intra-Sectoral Structures Of Employment

Westermanna, Georg; Schaeferb, Holger - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 10 (2001) 1, pp. 23-44

efficiency and labour costs. To measure efficiency, we use a non-parametric linear programming method. DEA. The results of …

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Localized Technological Progress And Industry Structure: An Empirical Approach

Cantner, Uwe; Westermann, Georg - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 6 (1998) 2-3, pp. 121-146

Modem innovation theory holds that the choice of production technique and technical porgress are unseparable activities so that technological progress can be described as localized. Based on this conception one has to expect an intra-sectoral firm heterogeneity in the production techniques...

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