DEA models help a DMU to detect its (in-)efficiency and to improve activities, if necessary. Efficiency is only one … economic aim for a decision-maker; however, up- or downsizing might be a second one. Improving efficiency is the main topic in … DEA; the long-term strategy towards the right production size should attract our attention as well. Not always the …

considered as a measure of this objective and, in turn, as a measure of productivity in relation to the production process in … which the journals are involved. In order to assess this production process, in this paper econometric models using data … panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of “economics …

In this paper, for the first time, we apply the Färe-Primont productivity index (FPI) to examine the agricultural total … factor productivity (TFP), during the period 2004-2016, in four regions of Greece: Macedonia and Thrace (region I), Epirus …). The FPI is further decomposed into measures of technical change, technical efficiency change, scale and mix efficiency …

from the Mongolian Stock Exchange website. The companies are grouped by k-medoids clustering, and efficiency of each … compared by financial ratios. The mean efficiency score of big companies' is much higher than that of small and medium …-sized companies. Integrated results show that cluster-specific efficiency provides better performance than pre-clustering efficiency …

participating farmers had the highest geomean for productivity change (152 %), efficiency change (40.5 %), technical change (53 ….2 %) and scale efficiency (40.5 %). Bayesian Modelling Average was used to assess determinants of coffee productivity. Bayesian …Historically, agricultural credit programs have been used as a policy instrument to improve agricultural productivity …

The paper examines efficiency, productivity and scale economies in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry …. Productivity change is analyzed using Malmquist indices, and efficiency is estimated using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The … significant gains in total factor productivity, and there is an upward trend in scale and allocative efficiency. More diversified …