2004 and 2011. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) are used to estimate the efficiency …This paper evaluates the efficiency of the twenty-one largest Syndicates of Lloyd's of London. Members of Lloyd's of …, that the average annual efficiency estimates for all Syndicates are plausible and they follow three-year cycles. Secondly …

We propose a measure of well-being efficiency to assess countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective well … sample of 126 countries. Efficiency scores reveal that high ranking subjective well-being countries, such as the Nordics, are … not strictly the most efficient ones. Also, the scores are uncorrelated with economic efficiency. This means that the …

The aim of this paper is to assess the efficiency of a set of 62 precious metal mutual funds (PMMFs) and to explain … performance differences between funds using weighted additive data envelopment analysis (DEA) and Tobit regression, respectively …