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Analysis of overall technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency in the medium-sized audit firms

Expert Systems With Applications, 2009
This study uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the operational efficiency of 173 medium-sized audit firms in 2005. The empirical result indicates that there are 24 audit firms with the overall technical efficiency value of 1. In terms of overall technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency, the result shows that
Chia-Chi Lee
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Institutions, Freedom, and Technical Efficiency

Southern Economic Journal, 2002
The 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., Moomaw, Ronald L., Savvides, Andreas   +2 more
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Measuring technical efficiency

European Journal of Operational Research, 2000
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Technical Efficiency in Nursing Homes

Medical Care, 1990
technical 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, 2022
Surgeon 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, Yuichi Watanabe, Hiroshi Otake   +2 more
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Customs union and technical efficiency

De Economist, 1982
Customs 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, 1990
The 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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Technical Efficiency in Agriculture

2020
Resource limitations in the agricultural sector for achieving food production is one of the most critical challenges for planners and policymakers in many countries including Iran. Optimal use of available resources is one of the ways to overcome these limitations.
Mohammad Ghorbani, Suren(dra) Kulshreshtha, R. Radmehr, F. Habibi   +3 more
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Managed care and technical efficiency

Health Economics, 2002
AbstractBy focusing exclusively on consumer benefit, previous studies of the effects of managed care have ignored important hospital efficiency gains. This study uses the HCUP sample of hospitals for 1992–1996 to estimate a stochastic frontier model of hospital technical efficiency.
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Fuzzy scores of technical efficiency

European Journal of Operational Research, 1999
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