This paper investigates determinants of agricultural sector efficiency in ten new member states (NMS-10) of the …) and the panel data analysis. The agricultural sector efficiency varies between the NMS-10. We have found positive and … significant association of the agricultural sector efficiency with the natural agricultural factor endowments, average farm size …

In this paper, we analyze the technical efficiency of CO2 reduction potentials of German power and heat plants, using a … energy generation technology, but natural gas fired power plants clearly have the highest efficiency. Furthermore, the …

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 …

, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate efficiency scores, which are then regressed on school and student … that educational efficiency in Uruguayan high schools significantly dropped in nine percentage points between 2009 and 2012 …. In this vein, our findings also show positive effects on public schools’ efficiency of providing the responsibility in …

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

Nonparametric efficiency analysis has become a widely applied technique to support industrial benchmarking as well as a …

We employ a non-parametric methodology, Data Envelopment Analysis, to estimate efficiency scores for Portuguese public … improvement might be possible in terms of efficiency. This could imply a better allocation by the universities of the usually …

We employ a non-parametric methodology, Data Envelopment Analysis, to estimate efficiency scores for Portuguese public … qualify, as "performing well" from those were some improvement might increase its efficiency. This is a first effort of … checking efficiency and productivity in Portuguese public tertiary education using non-parametric analysis …

Stochastic Non-smooth Envelopment of Data (StoNED) is a semi-parametric and stochastic method of efficiency measurement …