production units. With regards to the efficiency evaluation, both the models are found to give statistically significant … ‘technical’ and ‘technical and scale’ efficiency ratings …

of equality of frontiers, have been available. The few existing tests are based on asymptotic theory relying on large …, have the correct size and furthermore higher power than the existing alternative tests based on asymptotic theory. …

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 …

Corporation (LIC) of India. The findings show a significant heterogeneity visible in the cost efficiency scores within 19 years … efficiency in 2000-01 is the basis for an optimism that LIC may be beginning to benefit from such a modernization, which will …

pesticides, family labour, and capital enhance the Technical Efficiency (TE) of growth inputs. However, hired labour affects …

some valuable progress has been made exploring the economic theory underlying DEA models, these developments have remained … in their infancy and have not found enough application. An attempt is made here to examine the DEA model of efficiency …

In the fixed-effects stochastic frontier model an efficiency measure relative to the best firm in the sample is … new measures may be preferred depending on the skewness of the inefficiency distribution and the scale of efficiency …

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 …