Bootstrap methods for inference in nonparametric models of productive efficiency can be simplified, reducing computational burden, when the independence condition implicitly assumed in Simar and Wilson (1998) holds. This paper surveys nonparametric tests of independence that might be useful in...

Water management in Austria is usually the responsibility of the public sector which through high connection rates to water supply and sewer pipelines makes an important contribution to public health and environmental protection. The funding required to maintain and expand the requisite...

Widely publicized reports of fresh MBAs getting multiple job offers with six-figure annual salaries leave a long-lasting general impression about the high quality of selected business schools. While such spectacular achievement in job placement rightly deserves recognition, one should not lose...

En este artículo se realiza una revisión genérica de los fundamentos básicos de alguno de los métodos más extendidos para analizar la eficiencia, puesto que ésta aparece como elemento determinante,por ser el más controlable, de la competitividad. Por ello, el trabajo arranca...