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Quality Production and Quality Indicators in Intermediate Products
Zago, Angelo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2004
The paper proposes a methodology to measure the characteristics of intermediate products when quality is multidimensional. It uses a general representation of the multioutput technology via directional distance functions and constructs quality indicators based on differences. The quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005641912
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International benchmarking of electricity distribution utilities
Førsund, Finn R.; Edvardsen, Dag Fjeld - 2001
Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284240
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International benchmarking of electricity distribution utilities.
Edvardsen, Dag Fjeld; Førsund, Finn R. - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2001
Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005427050
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An Evaluation of Cross-Efficiency Methods, Applied to Measuring Warehouse Performance
Balk, Bert M. - 2019
In this paper method and practice of cross-efficiency calculation is discussed. The main methods proposed in the literature are tested not on a set of artificial data but on a realistic sample of input-output data of European warehouses. The empirical results show the limited role which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900472
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Measuring Productivity and Efficiency of Seaports in India using DEA technique
Monteiro, Jeronimo Guilherme Remigio - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 2 (2018) 3, pp. 155-174
levels of productivity and efficiency of seaports in India. This paper applies DEA technique to assess productivity and … efficiency of seaports in India. Design/Research methods: DEA technique is extensively used in the literature of economics to … a period of time. DEA is a frontier model which is non-parametric since no functional specification or form is required …
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Growth of Factor Productivity in the Turkish Manufacturing Industry at Provincial Level
Karadag, Metin; Onder, A. Ozlem; Deliktas, Ertugrul - 2005
This paper estimates the total factor productivity (TFP) change of the private and public sectors in the Turkish manufacturing industry in the selected provinces for 1990-98. It uses data envelopment analysis to compute Malmquist productivity indices decomposed into two components, namely...
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Improving the Efficiency of Metropolitan Area Transit by Joint DEA of Its Multiple Providers
Barnum, Darold T. - 2009
This paper provides transit policy makers and managements with a protocol for analyzing the efficiency of an urban area's non-rail transit when multiple types of service are operated. Procedures are described for estimating (a) the individual technical efficiency of each non-rail transit type,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160115
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Dynamic industry productivity measures: The case of thermal electricity generation by South Korean plants 2001-2008 and in Chinese regions 2000-2014
Førsund, Finn R.; Heshmati, Almas; Wang, Ke - 2018
A framework for applied production theory should focus on the crucial features of the industry to be studied. First of all, to be useful for a dynamic study, a distinction has to be made between the theoretical production possibilities before investment takes place and the actual empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058697
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Return to Dollar, Generalized Distance Function and the Fisher Productivity Index
Zofío, José Luis; Prieto, Angel - Departamento de Análisis Económico: Teoría … - 2005
Exploring the duality between a return to dollar definition of profit and the generalized distance function we establish the relationship between the Laspeyres, Paasche and Fisher productivity indexes and their alternative Malmquist indexes counterparts. By proceeding this way, we propose a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005456416
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Capitalizing R&D Expenditures
Diewert, Erwin; Huang, Ning - Vancouver School of Economics - 2008
The next international version of the System of National Accounts will recommend that R&D (Research and Development) expenditures be capitalized instead of being immediately expensed as in the present System of National Accounts 1993. An R&D project creates a new technology, which in principle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977061