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Efficiency and effectiveness in the urban public transport sector: a critical review with directions for future research

Daraio, Cinzia; Diana, Marco; Di Costa, Flavia; … - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e … - 2014

This paper proposes a self-contained reference for both policy makers and scholars who want to address the problem of efficiency and effectiveness of Local Public Transport (LPT) in a sound empirical way. Framing economic efficiency studies into a transport planning perspective, it offers a...

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Rankings and university performance: a conditional multidimensional approach

Daraio, Cinzia; Bonaccorsi, Andrea; Simar, Leopold - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e … - 2014

University rankings are the subject of a paradox: the more they are criticized by social scientists and experts on methodological grounds, the more they receive attention in policy making and the media. In this paper we attempt to give a contribution to the birth of a new generation of rankings,...

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Efficiency and benchmarking with directional distances. A data driven approach

Daraio, Cinzia; Simar, Leopold - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e … - 2014

In efficiency analysis the assessment of the performance of Decision Making Units (DMUs) relays on the selection of the direction along which the distance from the efficient frontier is measured. Directional Distance Functions (DDFs) represent a flexible way to gauge the inefficiency of DMUs....

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Análise de envoltória de dados para avaliação de eficiência e caracterização de tipologias em agricultura: um estudo de caso

Gomes, Eliane Gonçalves; Mangabeira, João Alfredo de … - In: Brazilian Journal of Rural Economy and Sociology (RESR) 43 (2005) 4

Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in this context allows the identification of inefficiencies sources and benchmark units. This paper … used DEA to measure the efficiency of farmers’ sample from Holambra, a São Paulo State municipality. Cultiva-ted area …, employment and machinery usage are the inputs and net inco-me is the output. DEA BCC is used in two models: global and by groups …

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Efficiency Evaluations Based on Potential (Non-Proportional) Improvements

Bogetoft, Peter; Hougaard, Jens - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 12 (1999) 3, pp. 233-247

Efficiency evaluation of a Decision Making Unit (DMU) involves two issues: 1) selection of an appropriate reference plan against which to evaluate the DMU and 2) measurement of performance slack. In the literature, these issues are mixed in one and the same operation but we argue that it has...

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Some Problems with the Ferrier/Hirschberg Bootstrap Idea

Simar, Léopold; Wilson, Paul - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 11 (1999) 1, pp. 67-80

This paper demonstrates that the bootstrap procedure suggested by Ferrier and Hirschberg (1997) gives inconsistent estimates. A very simple example is given to illustrate the statistical issues underlying nonparametric efficiency measurement and the problems with the Ferrier/Hirschberg approach,...

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Bootstrapping Confidence Intervals for Linear Programming Efficiency Scores: With an Illustration Using Italian Banking Data

Ferrier, Gary; Hirschberg, Joseph - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 8 (1997) 1, pp. 19-33

This article suggests a method for introducing a stochastic element into Farrell measures of technical efficiency as calculated via linear programming techniques. Specifically, a bootstrap of the original efficiency scores is performed to derive confidence intervals and a measure of bias for the...

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Parametric and Nonparametric Approaches to Benchmarking the Regulated Firm

Granderson, Gerald; Linvill, Carl - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 12 (1999) 3, pp. 211-231

Rewarding regulated firms based on their relative performance requires benchmarks that reflect how performance is affected by regulation. This paper demonstrates how parametric and nonparametric efficiency measures can be employed to produce benchmarks that account for the effects of regulation....

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Probabilistic Bounds on the Virtual Multipliers in Data Envelopment Analysis: Polyhedral Cone Constraints

Olesen, Ole; Petersen, Niels - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 12 (1999) 2, pp. 103-133

The paper is concerned with the incorporation of polyhedral cone constraints on the virtual multipliers in DEA. The …

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Hierarchies and Groups in DEA

Cook, Wade; Chai, Dan; Doyle, John; Green, Rodney - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 10 (1998) 2, pp. 177-198

Conventional applications of data envelopment analysis (DEA) presume the existence of a set of similar decision making … introduce the concept of hierarchical DEA, where efficiency can be viewed at various levels. We provide a means for adjusting …

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