The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the performance of a sample of sixty-two precious metal mutual funds by applying a two-stage procedure. In the first stage, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to measure the relative efficiency of funds. In the second stage, a Tobit model is employed...

This paper investigates whether productive inefficiency measured as the distance from the industry's 'best practice' frontier is an important ex-ante predictor of business failure. We use samples of French textiles, wood and paper products, computers and R&D companies to obtain efficiency...

This paper presents a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model combined with bootstrapping to assess performance in mining operations. Since DEA-type indicators based on nonparametric production analysis are simply point estimates without any standard error, we provide a methodology to assess the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the efficiency of individual branches of a large Greek bank through the application of both goal programming (GP) and data envelopment analysis (DEA). Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs a particular least absolute deviations (LAD)...

Existing research on construction performance measurement is dominated by project level studies, and the firm stakeholders require the development of models that compare performance in terms of efficiency. A new framework that integrates data envelopment analysis (DEA) and ratio analysis using a...