Search Results - subject_exact:"Technische Effizienz"

ESG integration and cost efficiency assessment : evidence from GCC banking

Aldousari, Abdullah - 2026

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Steered by digitization and incentives : the configuration and effect of improving innovation efficiency in manufacturing companies

Deng, Haixiong; Yang, Fang; Wei, Huang - 2026

Digitization has reshaped corporate innovation. However, few studies have explored how companies can fully incentivize their human capital in the digital transformation process to improve innovation capabilities. To address this gap, this study proposes a configurational framework that...

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The Power of neighbourhood : how social interactions shape household technical efficiency in fostering children's scholastic achievement

Agee, Mark D. - 2026

This paper examines the impact of neighbourhood social interactions on a household's ability to produce their child's scholastic achievement. A time-varying stochastic frontier model and a spatial Durbin model are used to estimate endogenous and contextual neighbourhood effects on household...

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Compensation for indirect carbon costs : impacts on electricity efficiency, production and emissions

Hagem, Cathrine; Kverndokk, Snorre; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2026

The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) leads to higher electricity prices and thus higher costs for electricity-intensive industries in the EU, reducing their competitiveness compared to those in non-EU countries. This disparity may result in carbon leakage, where production shifts abroad,...

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Compensation for indirect carbon costs : impacts on electricity efficiency, production, and emissions

Hagem, Cathrine; Kverndokk, Snorre; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2026

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Measuring environmental efficiency of ports under undesirable outputs and uncertainty

Sonkariya, Anjali; Awasthi, Anjali - 2026

Ports are the major gateways of cities. Background: Sustainable growth requires ports to prioritize efficiency while balancing economic, social, and environmental goals. There is limited synthesized evidence on the sustainability evaluation of ports, including those of North America. In this...

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Productivity Gap between Women- and Men-Run Private Hotels in Georgia : A Data Envelopment Analysis–Based Meta Frontier Analysis

Amin, Mohammad; Ali, Nesma - 2026

This paper makes an initial attempt to account for differences in the technologies used by women- and men-run businesses, that is, technological “heterogeneity,” for better understanding productivity differences between the two groups. The paper applies meta frontier analysis to the...

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The relative efficiency of the health sector in Saudi Arabia : a data envelopment analysis

Benyoussef, Slah; Jbir, Rafik; Belkhir, Nadia - 2026

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Market structure, efficiency, and the quest for banking performance : new insights from an evolving banking market

Khan, Naveed; Afridi, Muhammad Asim; Ṭāhir, Muḥammad; … - 2026

This study investigates the impact of market structure on the performance of banks in Pakistan. It explicitly tests two competing hypotheses: the Structure-Conduct-Performance paradigm and the Efficient Structure Hypothesis, providing insights into whether profitability stems from market...

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Evaluation of green efficiency of the industrial sector and its influencing factors in West Sumatra

Ayu, Putri; Weriantoni, Weriantoni; Susanti, Oknovia; … - 2026

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Innovation efficiency and its influencing factors in China's new energy enterprises : an empirical analysis

Li, Bei; Li, Dongwei - 2026

Against the backdrop of global energy transition and sustainable development, advancing the new energy industry has become a critical pathway for optimizing energy structures and achieving the dual carbon goals. However, while China's new energy sector has experienced rapid growth, it has also...

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The hidden costs of trade : institutional and cultural determinants of export efficiency for Vietnam's wood products

Nguyen, Phong; Tran, Xuan Uyen; Faye, Bonoua - 2026

Vietnam's wooden forest products industry is an important export sector, contributing to industrial growth and employment. However, it is facing increasing pressures related to challenges such as forest and export sustainability. Despite its potential, Vietnam's export performance remains uneven...

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Tourism-induced Data Envelopment Analysis (T-DEA) : an application in the Eurozone economic space

Ekonomou, George; Kallioras, Dimitris - 2026

This study investigates technical efficiency scores and performance change patterns by applying the tourism-induced Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the Eurozone from 1996 to 2019. The study uses direct employment in tourism and capital investment spending directly related to the travel and...

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Evaluation of public expenditure in Morocco : an analysis using efficiency frontiers

Lhajhouji, Yassin; Hasnaoui, Rachid; Bakhat, Mohcine - 2026

In Morocco, the increasing public expenditure on essential sectors, such as education, does not always lead to improved outcomes, highlighting a significant gap between resource allocation and quality enhancement. This study examines the efficiency of public expenditure in education, health, and...

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Chinese import competition, firm-level productivity growth and the distance to the frontier

Friesenbichler, Klaus S.; Kügler, Agnes; Reinstaller, … - 2026

Recent evidence suggests that Chinese imports negatively impact firm-level productivity growth in the EU. We argue that this effect is moderated by the technological frontier, as proposed by Acemoglu et al. (2006). Using three distinct measures of the frontier, we examined firm-level data from...

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Robust frontier and efficiency analysis with frontiles

Daouia, Abdelaati; Laurent, Thibault - 2026

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The economics of shipping decarbonisation : carbon, production, and allocative efficiencies

Shi, Yao; Moutzouris, Ioannis C. - 2026

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Quasi-indexers' ownership and capital budgeting efficiency of firms

Zhang, Xiaowen - 2026

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Allocating misallocation : decomposing measures of aggregate allocative efficiency

Blackwood, G. Jacob; Haltiwanger, John C.; Wolf, Zoltán - 2026

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Banking efficiency under systemic uncertainty : a bibliometric lens on sustainability

Manta, Alina Georgiana; Ghertescu, Claudia; Bădîrcea, … - 2026

This study delves into how the literature conceptualizes banking efficiency as a capability shaping sustainability-oriented pathways under conditions of systemic uncertainty, including recurrent economic-financial disruptions and geopolitical shocks. Using records indexed in the Web of Science...

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Is Spain's energy voucher lighting the way for the poor? : A microeconomic evaluation of the Bono Social Eléctrico

Llorca, Manuel; Rodríguez Álvarez, Ana - 2026

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Is Spain's energy voucher lighting the way for the poor? : a microeconomic evaluation of the Bono Social Eléctrico

Llorca, Manuel; Rodríguez Álvarez, Ana - 2025

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From efficiency measurement to spatial correlation : slacks-based directional distance function and Moran’s I study of Vietnam's provincial development

Pham, Anh Ton - 2026

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An analytical framework for sustainability assessment under stochastic conditions

Amirteimoori, Alireza; Allahviranloo, Tofigh; … - 2026

Measuring sustainability as an efficient tool to achieve sustainable development and improve economic, social, and environmental aspects is always fraught with complications. In this sense, developing a suitable approach for evaluating and recognizing the strengths and weaknesses across these...

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Determinants of sustainable productivity growth in Thai rice farming

Supawat Rungsuriyawiboon; Piyawong Punjataewakupt - 2026

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Educational spending efficiency : a comparative analysis using data envelopment analysis and Malmquist Index

Ghernouk, Chaimae; Liouaeddine, Mariem - 2026

This study examines the efficiency and productivity of public education expenditure in 20 countries using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist Productivity Index over the period 2011-2023. Focusing on science and mathematics performance at the primary and lower-secondary levels, the...

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Evaluating ESG effects on firm's technical efficiency with robust nonparametric frontiers : insights from Asia

Arsenopoulou, Maria; Nerantzidis, Michail; Lazarides, … - 2026

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Potential structural efficiency of Chinese commercial banks

Yu, Zhiqian; Liu, Yuning; Ma, Biyin; Baležentis, Tomas; … - 2026

Given that structural efficiency serves as a significant instrument, this paper applies a novel approach to measure structural efficiency levels within Chinese banks from the perspective of potential improvement. To further investigate the patterns of structural efficiency, the overall...

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Widening the productivity gap in the Russian economy in 2009-2015 : stochastic frontier analysis using firm-level data

Bessonova, Evguenia V. - 2026

This paper analyzes total factor productivity (TFP) in Russia over 2009-2015 using firm-level data. Stochastic frontier analysis is employed to simultaneously estimate TFP growth and the distance to the production-possibility frontier for each firm in the sample. The results suggest significant...

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Who is helped by help to buy schemes?

Boileau, Bee; Conwell, Lucas; Levell, Peter - 2026

Demand-side policies which relax borrowing constraints for homebuyers, with the aim of increasing homeownership, are increasingly common. We propose a new approach to evaluating ex-ante how such policies would change individuals' opportunity sets according to their income, location and parental...

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Measuring and benchmarking time-varying market efficiency

Mu, Yali; Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan von; Rosero, Gabriel; … - 2026

This paper develops and implements an analytical framework combining spatial space techniques with panel stochastic frontier models to assess and benchmark time-varying market efficiency, with China's pork market serving as the empirical application. We analyze spatial and temporal dynamics in...

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A study on the efficiency and influencing factors of China's four-stage ports using DEA and Tobit two-stage models

Zhu, Xinyuan; So, Ae Rim; Shin, Seungsik - 2026

Chinese ports reached their fourth stage of development in 2013. Based on this context, this study analyzes the efficiency of four-stage ports using time series data on 16 major coastal ports in China from 2010 to 2019, covering the latter half of stage three into stage four. Using Data Envelope...

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Provincial differences in cultural-tourism integration efficiency and their driving mechanisms in China

Sun, Haidong - 2026

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How global energy efficiency varies from the perspective of 136 countries : a spatial-temporal analysis considering game crossings

Yang, Guangming; Qin, Yizhi; Ye, Hong; Li, Darong; … - 2026

Understanding the spatial‒temporal evolution of global energy efficiency (EE) and its influencing factors is critical for achieving sustainable development. However, existing studies lack comprehensive global-scale analyses and fail to address interregional competition in efficiency...

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The more government subsidies, the lower the green innovation efficiency? : evidence from China's energy-intensive industries

Peng, Feng; Yu, Cong; Zhou, Shuzhen - 2026

Promoting green innovation in energy-intensive industries is of strategic significance for achieving sustainable economic and social development. However, the role of government subsidies in improving green innovation efficiency (GIE) remains unclear. This study employs a combined...

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Airport productivity in ASEAN : evidence from data envelopment analysis and implications for regional development

Law, Colin C. H. - 2026

The rapid economic growth of members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has relied heavily on effective transport infrastructure. This study analyzes the efficiency of 51 international airports in the ASEAN region from 2013 to 2023 to assess their impact on regional...

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Fuelling efficiency : India's industrial energy efficiency employment and skills landscape

Jain, Sajal; Dasgupta, Diya; Dasgupta, Somit; Abhishek, … - 2026

Energy efficiency (EE) in industries is critical in decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation by lowering energy intensity and enhancing competitiveness. As clean energy transitions accelerate globally, EE-relevant employment has shown steady growth, with some countries...

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Normative Lean Performance Score model based on financial and accounting metrics

Bányai, Attila; Bárczi, Judit; Thalmeiner, Gergő - 2026

This paper introduces the Normative Lean Performance Score (NLPS) model designed to evaluate lean operational performance using publicly available financial and accounting metrics, without requiring advanced analytics for practical implementation. The study applies an empirical research design...

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Footprint efficiency for human development : an international analysis

Gutiérrez-Goiria, Jorge; Etxano, Iker; Herrera, … - 2026

The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of natural resource use by countries in their fostering of human development, taking into consideration the biophysical requirements (resource consumption and emissions) of development processes and the improvement in well-being. The Footprint...

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How carbon trading in the power sector affects carbon emission efficiency : an empirical study based on Chinese provincial panel data

Liu, Hongwei; Bo, Hai - 2026

Although carbon trading in the power sector (CTIP) has been widely studied in terms of its effects on electric utilities and the industry as a whole, its regional economic impact remains insufficiently explored. To address this gap, this study adopts the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) model....

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Tax structure and public sector efficiency : new evidence for developing countries

Menescal, Lucas; Alves, José - 2026

This paper investigates how tax structure compositions influence public sector efficiency on developing countries using a combined framework of data envelopment analysis (DEA), instrumental-variable estimation and dynamic productivity analysis based on the Malmquist index. We first construct...

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Environmental and technical efficiency of French sheep farms in less favored areas : off-season production penalizes environmental performance

Minviel, Jean-Joseph; Benoit, Marc; Latruffe, Laure - 2026

Given the need for farms to reduce their negative environmental impacts while maintaining their productive performance, this study analyzes the technical and environmental efficiency of a sample of sheep farms in France, with a focus on greenhouse gas emissions and nitrogen surplus. To do so, we...

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Heterogeneous evolution of family firm efficiency

Chollete, Lorán; Lim, Ralph; Lu, Ching-Chih - 2026

We address the question: What explains the dynamic behavior of family firm efficiency? Motivated by previous research, the "What" of our study is to document heterogeneity in dynamic efficiency. The "Why" involves theoretically parsing factors that drive dynamic efficiency.We offer a theory, the...

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Efficiency of health systems in developing countries : the case of West African countries

Akoetey, Kossivi; Viallefont, Anne - 2026

Developing countries are faced with numerous health challenges such as lack of funding, increasing frequency and magnitude of epidemic risks, organizational and socio-cultural difficulties. In this context, we developed this study to assess for the first time the efficiency of health systems in...

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Revealing the effect of agricultural interventions on technical efficiency : empirical evidence from Indonesian smallholder rice farmers

Dewi, Yovita Anggita; Bahru, Bezawit Adugna; Zeller, Manfred - 2026

This study examines the impact of certified seed use and agricultural extension services on technical efficiency (TE), leveraging a panel dataset to track efficiency dynamics over time while accounting for unobserved heterogeneity. Using a stochastic metafrontier production function, our...

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Measuring the efficiency of Japanese securities firms

Harimaya, Kozo; Okuyama, Eiji - 2026

Since Japan's recent financial liberalization, online securities transactions have proliferated, and changes have been promoted in the securities industry's structure. This study investigated the differences in efficiency and scale economies between online securities firms and traditional...

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The impact of mergers on aggregate productivity : an empirical analysis using productivity decomposition

Ito, Yojiro; Miyakawa, Daisuke - 2026

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An analytical investigation of incentive regulation and efficiency improvement using data envelopment analysis

Zhang, Daqun; Vilela, Bruno; Ahn, Heinz - 2026

This study examines whether and how Brazil's incentive regulation regime affects the productivity of electricity distribution system operators (DSOs). Cross-sectional inefficiency scores are estimated using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and the influence of contextual factors is assessed...

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A stable ranking framework using historical Data Envelopment Analysis frontiers and Mahalanobis distance

Carvalhosa, Salvador; Lucas, Alexandre - 2026

Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) need performance-based methods to share locally generated energy to prevent free-riding, incentivize consumer behavior, and improve overall social well-being through sector interaction. We tackle the challenge of ranking REC members for local energy allocation...

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Bayesian DEA framework for market power and efficiency analysis in banking operations

Fukuyama, Hirofumi; Tsionas, Efthymios G.; Tan, Yong - 2026

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Environmental efficiency of rainfed and irrigated wheat crops in Spain : a stochastic DEA metafrontier approach

Lozano, Sebastián; Gutiérrez Moya, Ester; Aguilera … - 2026

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Robust data envelopment analysis models for efficiency evaluation with new uncertainty sets

Arabmaldar, Aliasghar; Hatami-Marbini, Adel - 2026

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