observable best-practice whilst productivity losses due to scale effects account for slightly over 15 percent of total inputs …

performance and productivity. A robust non-parametric Malmquist index is applied to measure group performance. The significance of … hospitals presented the highest efficiency consistency, they had also the lowest levels of productivity, while the hospitals … productivity. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 …

individual banks, the efficiency and productivity of the overall industry declined after regulation. We also find that … productivity had positive growth before regulation mainly due to improvements in pure technology, and that government ownership had …

productivity levels in services were well below countries such as the US, Japan and Hong Kong. Massive employment of foreign … workers was cited as the reason for poor productivity levels. To shed more light on Singapore's falling productivity, a … nonparametric Malmquist productivity index was employed which provides measures of productivity change, technical change and …

individual banks, the efficiency and productivity of the overall industry declined after regulation. We also find that … productivity had positive growth before regulation mainly due to improvements in pure technology, and that government ownership had …

paper employs a nonparametric Malmquist productivity index to provide measure of productivity, technological change and … efficiency gains over the period 1995–2005. The findings reveal some total factor productivity growth associated with …

In this study, productivity growth in thirty-five Australian universities is investigated using nonparametric frontier …, postgraduate and PhD completions, national competitive and industry grants and publications. Using Malmquist indices, productivity … growth is decomposed into technical efficiency and technological change. The results indicate that annual productivity growth …