Several previous experiments using the minimum effort (weak link) coordination game reveal a striking regularity …-world groups, such as firms, face similarly difficult coordination problems, this poses an important question for economics and … create in the laboratory? This paper presents one reason. The experiments show that, even though efficient coordination does …

We characterize the sharing rule that achieves efficiency in a contribution mechanism when agents are heterogeneous …

Conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) for measuring the relative efficiency of a set of decision-making units … technical efficiencies, but such methods are unable to calculate the interval scale efficiency. The focus of this paper is the … efficiency. The associated models are essentially nonlinear programs with only bound constraints for variables in a sophisticated …

. When technical efficiency was compared with technical change under the conditions of variable rate of return the average … change in technical efficiency increased to 93.2% whereas technical change increased to 75.9%. The comparison during the … period 1987-1992 of technical change and technical efficiency that recorded 86.2% and 113.1%, consecutively, there were …

power system. This paper compares production efficiency and other aspects of nodal and zonal pricing. We consider two types of …

reallocating inputs across outputs. We introduce a measure of coordination efficiency, which captures these efficiency gains. We …We extend a recently developed methodology for measuring the efficiency of Decision Making Units (DMUs) in the case of … includes information about the allocation of inputs to particular outputs. We focus on possible efficiency gains by …

, the differences can be especially large, baffling and disruptive. Coordination theory provides a method and vocabulary for …