efficiency of the primary care physician in Ontario, Canada. Methods: Survey data were collected from 183 self … frontier regression models were used to estimate efficiency scores and parameters for two separate outputs: the number of … analyses. The average efficiency was 0.72 for both outputs with scores varying from 4 % to 93 % for the visits and 5 % to 94 …

classic economic notion of structural efficiency. We here argue that it is crucial for policy analysis to be able to quantify …

its efficiency – using a broad panel of German municipalities. Our results suggest that voter involvement indeed has a … positive impact on cost efficiency. Crucially, however, this efficiency-enhancing effect of voter involvement is significantly …

firms that exert the most influence on the resulting efficiency scores. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004 …

regression is fitted to identify which elements suggested in the literature are the most influential on the technical efficiency … levels of expenditure and basic health achievements; (b) that spatial patterns of efficiency are correlated to economic … performance, but also to locally specific relevant differences; (c) and that positive determinants of efficiency are given by …