This paper examines the efficiency of the German hospital sector over time and the relative efficiency of public, welfare (both nonprofit) and private (for-profit) hospital sectors using data from the Federal Statistics Office of German hospitals. Efficiency scores were computed using Data...

The paper jointly evaluates the determinants of the choice of maize growing season (winter vs. summer maize) and economic efficiency of individual producers in Bangladesh using a sample selection framework applied to stochastic frontier models. Model diagnostics reveal that sample selection bias...

Die Effizienz von Krankenhäusern ist für die Krankenversicherer, die staatlichen Verwaltungen und für das Krankenhausmanagement von Interesse. In dieser Studie wird die relative Effizienz von schweizer Krankenhäusern mit der nichtparametrischen, deterministischen Data Envelopment Analysis...