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DECOMPOSING TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY AND WINDOW ANALYSIS
Studies in Economics and Finance, 2004Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and window analysis are used to follow the changes in Australian trading banks' pure technical efficiency, scale efficiency, and the nature of returns to scale. The main findings indicate declining average efficiency scores until 1991, followed by a steady rise thereafter. Pure technical inefficiency emerges as a greater
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Technical Change and Efficiency in Irish Agriculture [PDF]
Economic and Social Review, 2001 This paper calculates average technical efficiency levels and rates of technical change for Irish agriculture using an unbalanced panel of 2,603 farms drawn from the Irish National Farm Survey over the period 1984 to 1998. An average technical efficiency level of between 65 and 70 per cent with a slight upward trend over the period was found.
O'Neill, Suzanne, Matthews, Alan
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Technical Change and Efficiency
1995Technical change plays a central role in dynamic economics. Economic theory considers technology as the main driving force behind economic growth of capitalist economies. From an economic viewpoint three aspects of technical change have been discussed as important in the current economic literature.
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An extended farrell technical efficiency measure
Journal of Economic Theory, 1984When the efficient subsets and isoquants of the input level sets of a production technology are not equal, the conventional Debreu-Farrell efficiency index is not a reliable indicator of the efficiency of inputs usage. On the other hand, it possesses the property of being homogeneous of degree minus one in the inputs whose efficiency level is being ...
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Technical Efficiency and Governance: The Case of China
2012Inefficient resource use by its enterprises may challenge the sustainability of Chinas intense and prolonged growth. Relying on a properly representative database of mainland Chinas economy, we investigate whether inefficiencies depend on ownership. Moreover, our stochastic frontier approach allows more flexibility to identify sources of inefficiency ...
Giovanni Ferri +2 more
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Uncertainty and technical efficiency in Finnish agriculture
2009Two salient features of modern economic growth are the rise in aggregate savings rates and the steady increase in life expectancy. This paper links these processes, showing that under certain conditions economic theory supports the hypothesis that increased longevity leads to higher aggregate savings in steady state.
Nauges, Celine +2 more
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Technical Efficiency of Public and Private Hospitals in Beijing, China: A Comparative Study
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020Rize Jing +2 more
exaly
Frontier Production Functions and Technical Efficiency Measures
Journal of Economic Surveys, 1999K P Kalirajan
exaly
Technical efficiency of thermoelectric power plants
Energy Economics, 2008CARLOS Pestana Barros, Nicolas Peypoch
exaly