efficiency improvements through consolidation. Focusing on a hypothetical restructuring of the industry, we apply Data … Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze the potential efficiency gains from mergers between water utilities at the county level. A … conditional efficiency framework is used to account for the operating environment. Highest efficiency improvement potentials turn …

the most efficient innovation processes. We combine a traditional nonparametric frontier approach with super-efficiency … and tests for return to scale properties using bootstrap procedures to derive consistent and robust efficiency estimates … Denmark have the highest R&D efficiency on average in total manufacturing. However, sector-specific efficiency scores reveal …

This paper assesses the relative efficiency of knowledge production in the OECD using a nonparametric DEA approach. In … constraints. The efficiency scores presented are based on an intertemporal frontier estimation for the period 1995 to 2004. We …&D efficiency by attenuating the incentives to innovate and to allocate resources efficiently. …

reform and free trade and by thus enhancing macroeconomic efficiency at full employment. Second, the static output gain from …

We revisit the question of the efficiency of individual decisions to be protected against crime for the cases of both …

sector. But, efficiency requires that they apply to both sectors because a higher matching rate in the high …

by enhancing efficiency as if a relative price distortion were being removed through price reform, trade liberalization …