Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in the measurement of organizational efficiency, starting from the deficiencies of the …Although financial indicators are most often used to measure organizational efficiency, contemporary research suggests …-parametric techniques. However, there is no method powerful enough to cover all the relevant aspects of the efficiency problem, i.e. each of …

along with the FDIC Call Report data for U.S. commercial banks. We examine the efficiency of the impact of the financial … inputs on small business entrepreneurial output. Our study provides a metric to capture financial input efficiency to the … the efficiency of the entrepreneurial process …

Estimating efficiencies of higher education institutions (HEIs) has become a central area of research in efficiency … analysis literature, particularly during the last two decades. Although the number of efficiency analysis researches in higher … between 2005 and 2010, belongs to the pioneering stream of researches conducting a comprehensive efficiency analysis on public …

index also provides a meaningful way to decompose environmental productivity into environmental technological and efficiency …

background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance … evaluation of banks, i.e., the measurement of the productivity and research results of previous authors’ studies of the European … financial institutions. The measurement of bank productivity is of vital importance from both a microeconomic and a …

panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of “economics …” and “social science, mathematical methods” in the Web of Science database. This efficiency is measured in terms of the …

not satisfied in real economies. Moreover, growth accounting assumes efficiency on factor and commodity markets, and … consequently does not distinguish between efficiency change and technical change. In this paper, we estimate total factor … efficiency change and technical change components. Using input-output tables of the US economy for the period 1977 to 2006, we …

efficiency scores derived from stochastic frontier analysis. To correct for this heterogeneity in coefficients, I propose a …. This estimation has better goodness of fit, reduced variance of all coefficients, and higher efficiency scores for nearly …

This study intends to understand how disaster is related to countries' production efficiency using a sample of 137 …. This finding suggests that the effect on countries' production efficiency is positive for lower number of disaster events …