Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze the potential efficiency gains from mergers between water utilities at the county level. A … efficiency improvements through consolidation. Focusing on a hypothetical restructuring of the industry, we apply Data … 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. …

An enormous number of empirical papers have estimated technical efficiency, the distance of firms inside a frontier … efficiency and compare them to those in the statistical literature. We consider the relation between competition and efficiency …

emerge: (i) any positive impact of ownership change is predominantly due to change in technical efficiency, not scale effects …

. This paper provides a methodology for doing that. It is illustrated with a case study of Indonesia, a large newly …

This paper analyses the remarkable growth experience of Indonesia since 1966. Over a thirty-year period, GDP per capita …

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