efficiency measurement has ever been done in previous researches, most noticeably water accounting and virtual water trading … comprehensive. Blue ratio is a new water efficiency measurement concept which is a blend from water accounting and virtual water …

. Previous studies of efficiency of the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry take a static framework, assuming all … inputs can be adjusted instantaneously. This paper measures efficiency dynamically by incorporating intertemporal links of … DEA considers capital as a quasi-fixed input and is modelled as a contemporaneous output into current production and an …

efficiency of companies and improve their potential. The authors tested a parametric (COLS) and non-parametric (DEA) methods to … technical efficiency. However, a similar statement for DEA models is unfair, since the inclusion in the analysis of either too … about the transition to modern long-term management regulation practices in order to increase companies' efficiency, which …

mean level of performance, in the period under investigation, efficiency improvements have been limited. Moreover, the … results demonstrate that both the ownership structure and politics do have an impact on the efficiency of the firms: in …

In this study we examine the potential determinants of technical efficiency for the Tunisian commercial banking sector … over the period of 1995-2017. First, we estimate banking technical efficiency with a radial and non-radial bootstrap data … determinants on technical efficiency. Finally, based on all possible regressions, we gauge the overall effect of each determinant …

The German potable water supply industry is regarded highly fragmented, thus preventing efficiency improvements that … of 364 German water utilities in 2006, applying Data Envelopment Analysis, to analyze the potential efficiency gains from … hypothetical mergers between water utilities at the county level. A conditional efficiency framework is applied to account for the …

spending efficiency in developing Asia. Using data envelopment analysis, we find that East Asia has the highest average output …- and input-oriented technical efficiency scores among the subregions. Universal health coverage service coverage index and … population density have the strongest effect on health spending efficiency. In addition, using the novel framework of macro …

the hospital-level efficiency scores are first estimated using DEA. In the second stage, the estimated DEA efficiency … technical and scale efficiency of public secondary level community hospitals in Eritrea, based on data generated in 2007, (b) to … contextual/environmental variables on hospital inefficiencies. Methods: A two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method is …