A data envelopment analysis (DEA) is presented to assess evolutions of firm efficiency and financial performance in … financial output. The financial performance of a firm is indicated by its efficiency, calculated by an input-oriented variable …

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

In this paper, we compare the efficiency of the Italian and German university system in the process of translating … sample of 133 public universities, of which 73 public universities in Germany and 60 public Italian universities, observed … over the period 2006-2011, we find that Italian universities are significantly better in terms of cost efficiency than …