Search Results - subject:"Distance function"

Competing in the Higher Education Market: Empirical Evidence for Economies of Scale and Scope in German Higher Education Institutions

Olivares, Maria; Wetzel, Heike - 2011

education sector. Using an input-oriented distance function approach, we estimate the economies of scale and scope and the …

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Evaluating the Role of Migration on Technical Efficiency

Glazyrina, Anna; Shaik, Saleem - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2011

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EXPLORING EDUCATIONAL EFFICIENCY DIVERGENCES ACROSS SPANISH REGIONS IN PISA 2006

FERRERA, JOSÉ MANUEL CORDERO; CEBADA, EVA CRESPO; … - In: Revista de Economia Aplicada 19 (2011) 3, pp. 117-145

distance function approach. Our findings suggest that La Rioja and Castile-Leon are the most efficient regions in Spain while …

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The Theory of By-Production of Emissions and Capital-Constrained Non-Cooperative Nash Outcomes of a Global Economy

Murty, Sushama - Business School, University of Exeter - 2011

to describe EGTs. Technologies that satisfy these axioms are called by-production technologies (BPTs). A distance … function representation of BPTs is derived and it is shown that a BPT can be decomposed into a standard neo-classical intended …

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Environment and economic efficiency: an analysis of some polluting Italian industries

Manello, Alessandro - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2011

this research presents an extension of the directional distance function model to measure performances for firms which …

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Competing in the Higher Education Market: Empirical Evidence for Economies of Scale and Scope in German Higher Education Institutions

Olivares, Maria; Wetzel, Heike - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011

education sector. Using an input-oriented distance function approach, we estimate the economies of scale and scope and the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010876545

A Primal Divisia Technical Change Index Based on the Output Distance Function

Feng, Guohua; Serletis, Apostolos - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2010

We derive a primal Divisia technical change index based on the output distance function and further show the validity … change index by total differentiation of the output distance function with respect to a time trend. We then show that this …

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Efficiency effects of quality of service and environmental factors: experience from Norwegian electricity distribution

Growitsch, Christian; Jamasb, Tooraj; Wetzel, Heike - Energiewirtschaftliches Institut (EWI), Universität zu … - 2010

Since the 1990s, efficiency and benchmarking analysis has increasingly been used in network utilities research and regulation. A recurrent concern is the effect of environmental factors that are beyond the influence of firms (observable heterogeneity) and factors that are not identifiable...

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Technical efficiency of automobiles: A nonparametric approach incorporating carbon dioxide emissions

Hampf, Benjamin; Krüger, Jens J. - 2010

We conduct an empirical analysis of the technical efficiency of cars sold in Germany in 2010. The analysis is performed using traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) as well as directional distance functions (DDF). The approach of DDF allows incorporating the reduction of carbon dioxide...

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Efficiency effects of quality of service and environmental factors: Experience from Norwegian electricity distribution

Growitsch, Christian; Jamasb, Tooraj; Wetzel, Heike - 2010

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