panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of “economics …” and “social science, mathematical methods” in the Web of Science database. This efficiency is measured in terms of the …

Cost functions and cost efficiency are commonly estimated for industries with detailed data on production and cost … performance. While a larger program expense ratio captures better administrative cost efficiency, it does not gauge best … a best-practice cost frontier to gauge the relative efficiency of not-for-profit organizations. Focusing on not …

organisation. The link to the calculation of savings potentials and efficiency measurement is provided based on introducing the … efficiency is introduced and its decomposition into output-oriented technical efficiency and output mix efficiency is shown. The … rather monumental task of providing the necessary information for calculating mix efficiency is highlighted. …

This study intends to understand how disaster is related to countries' production efficiency using a sample of 137 …. This finding suggests that the effect on countries' production efficiency is positive for lower number of disaster events …

Estimating efficiencies of higher education institutions (HEIs) has become a central area of research in efficiency … analysis literature, particularly during the last two decades. Although the number of efficiency analysis researches in higher … between 2005 and 2010, belongs to the pioneering stream of researches conducting a comprehensive efficiency analysis on public …

We compute DEA efficiency scores and Malmquist indexes for a panel data set comprising 68 Portuguese public hospitals … are significant fluctuations among NHS hospitals in terms of individual efficiency scores from one year to the other …

production units. With regards to the efficiency evaluation, both the models are found to give statistically significant … ‘technical’ and ‘technical and scale’ efficiency ratings …