This paper presents an approach to include both the unstorable feature of transportation service and the technological differences within railway companies in efficiency and effectiveness measurements. We explore efficiency and effectiveness for a group of 40 global railways in the year 2002,...

This article proposes an extended three-stage DEA methodology similar to Fried et al. (2002) to improve the measurement of productivity growth then the assumption of free disposability of undesirable outpu t does not apply. A directional distance function is used to construct adjusted...

The purpose of this paper is to apply a hyperbolic graph efficiency approach to measure "return to the dollar" at the station-level of the Taiwan Motor Transport Company before and after privatization. The "return to the dollar" measure is decomposed into two components: a technical efficiency...

Following the spirit of the enhanced Russell graph measure, this paper proposes an enhanced Russell-based directional distance measure (ERBDDM) model for dealing with desirable and undesirable outputs in data envelopment analysis (DEA) and allowing some inputs and outputs to be zero. The...

Financial Holding Companies (FHCs) were established after Taiwan's FHC Act is signed to law in 2001, since then, FHCs have become the mainstream and dominated Taiwan's financial market, meanwhile, the Taiwan government mandated that, effective 1 January 2013, all listed banks should adopt IFRS...