Cost Efficiency and Total Factor Productivity: An Empirical Analysis of Pakistan’s Insurance Sector
Lahore Journal of EconomicsThis study uses data envelopment analysis and the Malmquist index to examine the impact of financial sector reforms on the efficiency and productivity of Pakistan’s insurance sector over the period 2000–09.
Uzma Noreen, Shabbir Ahmad
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Health expenditure efficiency in rural China using the super-SBM model and the Malmquist productivity index. [PDF]
Int J Equity Health, 2019 Liu W, Xia Y, Hou J.
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Transport and CO2: Productivity Growth and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the European Commercial Transport Industry [PDF]
In the last decades transport activities persistently increased in the EU27 and were strongly coupled to growth in GDP. Like most production processes, they are inevitably linked with the generation of environmentally hazardous by-products, such as CO2 ...
Krautzberger, Lisann, Wetzel, Heike
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The productivity development of total hip arthroplasty in Sweden: a multiple registry-based longitudinal study using the Malmquist Productivity Index. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2019 Goude F +4 more
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Telecommunications productivity, catch-up and innovation [PDF]
This study examines telecommunications productivity, technological catch-up and innovation in 74 countries for the period 1991-1995. A summary of partial productivity indicators is presented, and total factor productivity (TFP) growth is calculated using
Madden, Gary G, Savage, Scott J
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Return to dollar, generalized distance function and the fisher productivity index [PDF]
, 2005 Exploring the duality between a return to dollar definition of profit and the generalized distance function we establish the relationship between the Laspeyres, Paasche and Fisher productivity indexes and their alternative Malmquist indexes ...
Prieto, Ángel M. +1 more
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Agricultural Productivity Growth, Efficiency Change and Technical Progress in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]
This paper analyzes total factor productivity growth in agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1961 and 2007 employing the Malmquist Index, a non-parametric methodology that uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods.
Carlos Ludena
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Productivity change of national health systems in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region: application of DEA-based Malmquist productivity index. [PDF]
Glob Health Res Policy, 2018 Masri MD, Asbu EZ.
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Robust, dynamic nonparametric benchmarking: the evolution of cost-productivity and efficiency among U.S. credit unions [PDF]
This paper develops a new methodology for estimating cost-productivity and efficiency change that benchmarks the performance of individual firms against an estimated a-quantile.
David C. Wheelock, Paul Wilson
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Have Price Policies Damaged LDC Agricultural Productivity? [PDF]
This paper examines agricultural policies in 18 developing countries over the period 1961-1985. We measure productivity with both a nonparametric Malmquist index and a production function, confirming previous findings of declining agricultural ...
Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin
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