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In the current economic climate, many companies are facing pressures to operate more efficiently resulting in frequent mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations. This often necessitates a change in various network structures within these organizations, which leads to the guiding question of...
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Die Einbeziehung von Umweltwirkungen in die Effizienzmessung ist erforderlich, da landwirtschaftliche Betriebe nicht nur zu Kosten und Leistungen aus Sicht des Unternehmens beitragen, sondern auch externe Effekte verursachen, die aus Sicht der Gesellschaft relevant sind. Im methodischen Teil der...
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Using the directional distance function we study a cross section of 110 countries to examine the efficiency of management of the tradeoffs between pollution and income. The DEA model is reformulated to permit 'reverse disposability' of the bad output. Further, we interpret the optimal solution...
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We extend data envelopment analysis (DEA) to decompose the economic efficiency of a sample of ethanol plants into internal (technical and allocative) and boundary (marketing) sources. This decomposition allows us to evaluate the channels through which different plant characteristics affect plant...
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In the corn ethanol industry, the ability of plants to obtain favorable prices through marketing decisions is considered important for their overall economic performance. Based on a panel of surveyed of ethanol plants we extend data envelopment analysis (DEA) to decompose the economic efficiency...
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This study employed data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the comparative efficiency performance of selected commercial banks, rural financial institutions and microfinance institutions in China. The first pairwise comparison indicated that commercial banks achieved higher level of overall...
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In this study we use data envelopment analysis to decompose the overall economicefficiency of a sample of ethanol plants into three subcomponents: technical efficiency, allocative efficiency and a new component we call marketing efficiency. The relative importance of these sources of efficiency...
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With the enforcement of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC (WFD), policy makers arerequired to pursue the improvement of the use efficiency of the water resources in the agriculturalsector. For this purpose, we suggest a methodology to perform an ex-ante analysis of the efficiency ofwater...
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The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private...
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