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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...

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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,...

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Governance of the Water Supply Systems in the Palestinian Territories : A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach to the Management of Water Resources

Alsharif, Kamal A.; Feroz, Ehsan H.; Klemer, Andrew; … - 2018

envelopment analysis (DEA) to 33 Palestinian municipalities. We demonstrate that DEA can be a useful tool to assess the relative …

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Assessing Hospital Efficiency : Non-Parametric Evidence for Portugal

Afonso, António; Fernandes, Sónia - 2008

We compute DEA efficiency scores and Malmquist indexes for a panel data set comprising 68 Portuguese public hospitals …

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Scale, Scope and Capacity Utilization in DEA

Sahoo, Biresh - 2012

. Using the nonparametric approach called data envelopment analysis (DEA), we have modeled this multi-stage production process …

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Evaluating Cost Efficiency and Returns to Scale in the Life Insurance Corporation of India Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Tone, Kaoru; Sahoo, Biresh - 2012

This paper applies a new variant of data envelopment analysis model to examine the performance of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India. The findings show a significant heterogeneity visible in the cost efficiency scores within 19 years. The decline in performance after 1994-95 can be taken...

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Degree of Scale Economies and Congestion : A Unified DEA Approach

Tone, Kaoru; Sahoo, Biresh - 2012

There are increasing concerns about how increase in congestion can adversely affect output as well as about the relative benefit-cost ratio or return on investment associated with alternative projects or policies to address those problems. Regardless of what policy strategies are used to address...

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Scale, Indivisibilities and Production Function in Data Envelopment Analysis

Tone, Kaoru; Sahoo, Biresh - 2012

some valuable progress has been made exploring the economic theory underlying DEA models, these developments have remained … in their infancy and have not found enough application. An attempt is made here to examine the DEA model of efficiency …-stage production processes makes the technology structure non-convex, and therefore, the standard convex DEA production models (e …

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Measuring Technical Efficiency in Data Envelopment Analysis

Sahoo, Biresh; Mohapatra, Pratap - 2012

of rapid capacity addition in the early 1990s coupled with the recession in the steel sector. Though our DEA results on …

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