The first chapter investigates the factors that explain the level of technical efficiency of a firm. In an empirical …-2004 is used. The technical efficiency of the firms is estimated using distribution free assumption and then it is relates to … for another 25 percent and the headquarter's location explains ten percent of the variation in efficiency. Most other firm …

productivity and efficiency. For the United States in the nineteenth century, it is shown that factories were more efficient than … artisanal shops, and the hypothesis that regional efficiency differences were responsible for different industrial development … paths cannot be confirmed.It is also shown that the american civil war had rather less influence on manufacturing efficiency …

This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agriculturalenterprises during their … efficiency, which is found to be remarkably significant. At the sametime there is a high variation among individual enterprises … performance.The Tobit regression analysis is conducted where the efficiency scores are related tofactors such as farm type, farm …

Customer Service Representative resource allocation efficiency of a major Canadian bank’s model. Two DEA models are proposed … allocation efficiency analysis in the banking industry. …

Technical efficiency, which measures how well a firm transforms inputs into outputs, gives fishery managers important … envelopment analysis (DEA), and the stochastic production frontier (SPF) have emerged as preferred methods to estimate efficiency …

The main thrust of this research is to measure the relative technical efficiency of the six (6) colleges of San Pedro … College from school year 2004-2014. The technical efficiency of the academic units can be derived based on its ability to … Accounting and Business in 2014. In terms of technical efficiency, all departments are technically-efficient during 2014. The …

This dissertation consists of four essays which investigate efficiency analysis, especiallywhen non … individualscores to study school efficiency. My final essay applies a standard DEA model and theMalmquist productivity index to …

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 …