technical efficiency, but rather establishing of an optimal scale of production. The share of scale efficiency firms has been … technical efficiency, but rather establishing of an optimal scale of production. The share of scale efficiency firms has been …The first chapter investigates the factors that explain the level of technical efficiency of a firm. In an empirical …

productivity and efficiency. For the United States in the nineteenth century, it is shown that factories were more efficient than … efficiency. Analyzing the determinants of labor productivity in Russia the results suggest a strong positive influence of … artisanal shops, and the hypothesis that regional efficiency differences were responsible for different industrial development …

This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agriculturalenterprises during their … productivity change is measured by theMalmquist Productivity Change Index in the period between 1990 and 1999. On average … efficiency, which is found to be remarkably significant. At the sametime there is a high variation among individual enterprises …

individualscores to study school efficiency. My final essay applies a standard DEA model and theMalmquist productivity index to …This dissertation consists of four essays which investigate efficiency analysis, especiallywhen non …-discretionary inputs exist. A new approach of the multi-stage Data EnvelopmentAnalysis (DEA) for non-discretionary inputs, statistical …

Efficiency measurement has been one of the most extensively explored areas of health services research over the past … two decades. Despite this attention, few studies have examined whether a provider’s efficiency varies on a monthly …. Using a quarterly panel of general, acute-care hospitals from Washington State, we find that hospital efficiency does vary …

improvement of the use efficiency of the water resources in the agriculturalsector. For this purpose, we suggest a methodology to … perform an ex-ante analysis of the efficiency ofwater pricing policies, based on a two stage DEA technique, by which it is … possible to disaggregatethe technical and the ecological efficiency of the policy. According to our results, we found that …

efficiency score, DEA method provides weights of particular inputs and outputs. These weights are used to find contributions of … the efficiency. In this paper, the level of efficiency represents the level of life quality. The efficiency (quality of … life) is in this case represented as a share of an output in weighted sum of inputs. In other words, it represents a …

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used as a tool for technical efficiency evaluation of decision making units. These … units are compared with each other. The comparison is based on the size of inputs and outputs. In case of an inefficient … unit, there is a possible of ordaining necessary changes for achievement of the efficiency frontier. There is a problem …