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The Use of Bootstrapped Malmquist Indices to Reassess Productivity Change Findings: An Application to a Sample of Polish Farms

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The paper assesses the extent to which sampling variation affects findings about Malmquist productivity change derived using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), in the first stage calculating productivity indices and in the second stage investigating the ...
Davidova, Sophia   +2 more
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International benchmarking of electricity distribution utilities. [PDF]

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Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new regimes for electricity distributors.
Dag Fjeld Edvardsen, Finn R. Førsund
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Estimating Total Factor Productivity and Its Components: Evidence from Major Manufacturing Industries of Pakistan [PDF]

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This paper estimates the trend in total factor productivity growth for eleven major manufacturing sub-sectors/industries listed on Karachi Stock Exchange.
Abdul Qayyum   +3 more
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Systematized and Path-independent Measurement of Biased Technical Change [PDF]

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The sample-specificity and path-dependence of the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based technical change index as a component of Malmquist indexes prevent us from obtaining overall and systematic information on technical change.
Tsunehiro Otsuki
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Aggregation Issues in the Estimation of Linear Programming Productivity Measures

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This paper demonstrates the sensitivity of the linear programming approach in the estimation of productivity measures in the primal framework using Malmquist productivity index and Malmquist total factor productivity index models.
Atwood, Joseph A.   +2 more
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Productivity Changes and Risk Management in Indonesian Banking: An Application of a New Approach to Constructing Malmquist Indices [PDF]

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In this study, we utilise a new, non-parametric efficiency measurement approach which combines the semi-oriented radial measure data envelopment analysis (SORM-SBM-DEA) approach for dealing with negative data (Emrouznejad et al., 2010) with the slacks ...
Wimboh Santoso   +4 more
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Assessing Hospital Efficiency: Non-parametric Evidence for Portugal [PDF]

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We compute DEA efficiency scores and Malmquist indexes for a panel data set comprising 68 Portuguese public hospitals belonging to the National Health System (NHS) in the period 2000-2005, when several units started being run in an entrepreneurial ...
António Afonso, Sónia Fernandes
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Productivity Growth, Technical Efficiency and Technical Change on Minnesota Farms

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Changes and trends in farm productivity have been of intense interest to many involved with agriculture. This study used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate the output-oriented Malmquist total factor productivity (TFP) index from panel data for ...
Vu, Linh, Olson, Kent D.
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