efficiency over time. Therefore, the main aim of the study was to determine whether small banks can successfully participate in … the efficiency race with large banks. Furthermore, it was essential to clarify whether the efficiency gap arises from … technical or scale efficiency. Finally, we also analyse how the COVID-19 pandemic crisis has affected efficiency and the …

additive DEA model for evaluating the efficiency of a set of decision making units (DMUs) with fuzzy inputs and outputs. The …

a best-practice cost frontier to gauge the relative efficiency of not-for-profit organizations. Focusing on not-for-profit … credibility of the latter as a measure of the performance of not-for-profit organizations. -- not-for-profit ; cost efficiency …Cost functions and cost efficiency are commonly estimated for industries with detailed data on production and cost …

The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the … conditional order-m approach which is a nonparametric method for efficiency computation accounting for environmental variables … find not-for-profit ownership and a presence of a specialized center in a hospital to be detrimental to hospital …

The paper examines efficiency, productivity and scale economies in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry …. Productivity change is analyzed using Malmquist indices, and efficiency is estimated using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The … significant gains in total factor productivity, and there is an upward trend in scale and allocative efficiency. More diversified …

We propose a two-stage procedure for finding realistic benchmarks for nonparametric efficiency analysis. On the first … reflected by the efficiency measure. …

This paper investigates the consistency of efficiency scores obtained from the stochastic frontier analysis and data … envelopment analysis methods. We estimate cost efficiency and economies of scale based on an unbalanced panel data set of Chinese … methods in efficiency scores rankings, identification of best and worst practice banks, the stability of efficiency scores …

We investigate the consistency of efficiency scores derived with two competing frontier …

industries create differences in efficiencies. Since efficiency is a valuable measurement to indicate the ability of an … cost efficiencies in order to find new evidence given the mixed results in previous literature. Profit efficiency is also … compared with cost efficiency based on a parametric approach. The results regarding cost and profit efficiency conforms to …