considerable new insights in that it allows the impact on costs of inter-institutional differences in the cost function itself to … be distinguished from inter-institutional differences in efficiency. The approach used here therefore resembles in some … respects the non-parametric methods of efficiency evaluation. We report also on measures of average incremental cost of …

efficiency of higher education institutions. The method yields useful information about inter-institutional variation in cost … structure and technical efficiency. Returns to scale and scope are evaluated for the typical university, and it is found that …

insights on the extent to which differences in costs between institutions producing similar vectors of outputs may be due to … different cost structures, on the one hand, and efficiency, on the other. The approach used here therefore resembles in some … respects the non-parametric methods of efficiency evaluation, since different loss functions attach to different universities …

absence of efficiency enhancing market pressure. To what extent universities are able to eliminate inefficiency is a question … inefficiency hinder the institutions to achieve full efficiency - at least in the short run. Two standard and one novel … efficiency evaluation changes when both aspects are taken into account. It is the first time that the idea of persistent …

We estimate a variety of models to evaluate costs in US higher education institutions. A novel feature of our approach …

recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency … method to measure efficiency, we separate short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent) efficiency, while controlling for … unobserved institution specific heterogeneity. While the first term reflects the efficiency of the individual universities …

Most bank efficiency studies that use stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) employ each bank's own implicit input price … substantial measurement error. In this paper, we examine the magnitude and direction of this error in cost and profit efficiency …

services over banks' total IT expenses. Bank efficiency, in turn, is measured by traditional accounting performance indicators … IT standardization is conducive to cost efficiency. The relation is positive and robust for small and medium-sized banks … IT expenditures negatively impact cost efficiency and have no influence on bank profits. To the best of our knowledge …

eine staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater. Im Vergleich zu den Einnahmen des Landes steigen die Finanzmittel der …