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Fuzzy scores of technical efficiency
European Journal of Operational Research, 1999zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Jens Leth Hougaard
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The Structure of Technical Efficiency
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1983It is common practice to decompose measures of efficiency into component measures of technical and allocative efficiency. In this paper we show how, and why, to decompose a general measure of technical efficiency into component measures of purely technical efficiency, congestion, and scale efficiency, and we investigate the properties of each measure ...
Rolf Färe +3 more
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Measures of technical efficiency [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 1985 \textit{R. Färe} and \textit{C. A. K. Lovell} [ibid. 19, 150-162 (1978; Zbl 0398.90012)] suggest four properties that a measure of technical efficiency should satisfy; the commonly employed Debreu-Farrell measure fails three of them. Necessary and sufficient conditions for a measure to satisfy the four conditions are provided and recently proposed ...
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X-efficiency and technical efficiency
Public Choice, 1994Efficiency measurement has become a very popular field in applied economics in recent years, and with this interest there has been a large intellectual investment in refining the empirical methods available to researchers in the area. In this paper we relate these developments to Harvey Leibenstein's original 1966 insight into the psychological ideas ...
Kenneth J. Button +1 more
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Institutions, Freedom, and Technical Efficiency
Southern Economic Journal, 2002The impact of institutions on economic performance is currently the subject of much research. In this study we use panel data to estimate a stochastic production frontier and the sources of inefficiency for a broad set of countries. A maximum‐likelihood procedure is used to estimate the parameters for the stochastic production frontier and the ...
Adkins, Lee C. +2 more
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Measuring technical efficiency
European Journal of Operational Research, 2000zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Technical Efficiency in Nursing Homes
Medical Care, 1990technical efficiency. A technically inefficient firm is one that uses more inputs than another firm to produce the same amount of output. The ranking of firms by technical efficiency, however, is limited by the explicit recognition of substitutability among inputs. For example, consider firms A, B, and C.
J A, Nyman, D L, Bricker, D, Link
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Effect of surgeon experience on technical efficiency
Health Services Management Research, 2022Surgeon experience certainly improves their technical efficiency although it also causes physiological changes with aging. The authors hypothesized that surgeons’ technical efficiency improves with increasing experience up to a point where it then decreases, which is a concave relationship.
Yoshinori Nakata +2 more
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Customs union and technical efficiency
De Economist, 1982Customs unions are frequently suggested to have a salutary effect upon the efficiency of production. However, this is not part of received customs union theory. It is shown that the essence of the competitive ‘cold shower’ is very difficult to accommodate in standard theory, given its underlying theory of intrafirm behaviour, the assumed nature of ...
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Ownership and Technical Efficiency of Hospitals
Medical Care, 1990The findings in this paper revealed the sample public hospitals to be more efficient relative to the sample NFP hospitals. Tight governmental control over the resources allocated to public hospitals may be one reason why these hospitals appear more efficient.
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