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Plausible values and their use in efficiency analyses with educational data

Aparicio, Juan; Cordero, Jose M.; Ortiz, Lidia - In: Applied economics 54 (2022) 29, pp. 3340-3352

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Measuring residential energy efficiency improvements with DEA

Grösche, Peter (contributor) - 2008

-stage procedure. In the first stage, an indicator of energy efficiency is derived by means of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and the … analogy between the DEA estimator and traditional measures of energy efficiency is demonstrated. The second stage employs a …

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Innovation, R&D efficiency and the impact of the regulatory environment : a two stage semi-parametric DEA approach

Cullmann, Astrid; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - 2009

This paper assesses the relative efficiency of knowledge production in the OECD using a nonparametric DEA approach …

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Research efficiency in manufacturing : an application of DEA at the industry level

Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - 2009

This paper analyzes research efficiency at the industry level in manufacturing for 13 European member and four nonmember countries during 2000 and 2004. A unique dataset was compiled that matches patent applications at the European Patent Office (EPO) to industry-specific R&D inputs from EU...

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Public-sector efficiency and interjurisdictional competition : an empirical investigation

Becker, Daniel Thomas - 2008

. These performance measures are then used as output variables in a non-parametric FDH (free disposable hull) and DEA (data …

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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 … competition. -- DEA ; efficiency measurement ; federalism ; fiscal equalization ; public finance ; Switzerland ; Tiebout …

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Overcoming data limitations in nonparametric benchmarking : applying PCA-DEA to natural gas transmission

Nieswand, Maria; Cullmann, Astrid; Neumann, Anne - 2009

of limited data availability in some regulated industries. Here, traditional DEA may result in a lack of discriminatory … power when high numbers of variables but only limited observations are available. We apply PCA-DEA for radial efficiency … while maintaining most of the variation in the original data. Our results suggest that the PCA-DEA methodology reduces the …

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Decomposing regional efficiency

Schaffer, Axel; Simar, Léopold; Rauland, Jan - 2010

Applying an outlier robust extension of the data envelopment analysis (DEA) followed by a geoadditive regression …. -- Outlier robust DEA ; regional efficiency ; geoadditive regression …

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Separating environmental efficiency into production and abatement efficiency : a nonparametric model with application to U.S. power plants

Hampf, Benjamin - 2011

. -- nonparametric efficiency analysis ; pollution abatement ; network DEA ; materials balance condition ; fosil-fueled power plants …

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The performance of German water utilities : a (semi)-parametric analysis

Zschille, Michael; Walter, Matthias - 2011

Germany's water supply industry is characterized by a multitude of utilities and widely diverging prices, possibly resulting from structural differences beyond the control of firms' management, but also from inefficiencies. In this article we use Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier...

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