The paper investigates the influence of reforms, demographic and socio-economic factors, and firm strategies on the performance of cultural organizations. The research question is addressed by applying a basic Data Envelopment Analysis Slack-Based Model (DEA SBM) and network DEA SBM to the whole...

This paper proposes an efficiency analysis of the major European incumbent firms in the fixed telecommunications sector. The non-parametric approach, that has been adopted here, expresses the efficiency according to a directional distance measure, allowing to consider the different nature of...

This paper evaluates the impact of the tightening in price cap by OFWAT and of other operational factors on the efficiency of water and sewerage companies in England and Wales using a mixture of data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis. Previous empirical results suggest that...