In designing a production model for firms that generate multiple outputs, we take as a starting point that such multi …-output production refers to economies of scope, which in turn originate from joint input use and input externalities. We provide a …. We illustrate our methodology by examining the cost efficiency of research programs in Economics and Business Management …

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

errors of the outputs of the hospital. The main findings are: First, inefficiency accounts for 9.3% of total hospital costs …

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …

equity in labor market opportunities upon efficiency in the production of GDP. It finds that aggregate technical efficiency … tracing its ancestry to ethnic groups who adopted the plough as an agricultural implement. That aggregate technical efficiency … a misallocation of employed women. Additionally, aggregate technical efficiency appears improved by democracy, the …

efficiency of co-ops; and on problems of democratic governance within co-ops. Using modern empirical methods applied to large …

on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …) and technical efficiency changes. We found that relative to the baseline rice output per decimal, access to credit … improvements in technical efficiency. The efficiency gain was higher for modern hybrid rice varieties, and almost zero for …