Efficiency, technology and productivity change in Australian universities, 1998–2003

Estimation of Cost Efficiency in Australian Universities

Various studies have been carried out on estimation of cost functions for Australian universities, for example, Throsby (1986) and Heaton and Throsby (1997, 1998), and Lloyd et al (1993). While estimating a cost function with different purposes, all of the studies have estimated an aggregate cost function in the sense that the sampled institutions were assumed to have the same cost function. Th...

Estimation of cost efficiency of Australian universities

The purpose of this paper is to quantify the efficiency with which Australian universities utilise their teaching resources. The study estimates the cost efficiency of 36 universities over the period 1995-2002 using stochastic frontier analysis. The present study differs from previous cost and efficiency studies of Australian universities in two respects. First, it employs stochastic frontier a...

Total Factor Productivity Growth, Technical Change and Technical Efficiency Change in Asian Economies: Decomposition Analysis

The aim of this paper is to analyze total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components in Asian countries applying Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to the time series data of 44 Asian countries from 2000 to 2010. Using Battese and Coelli approach, TFP is divided into technical efficiency change and technical change. TFP decomposition using SFA method for the years 1998 to 2007 indicate...

Efficiency and Productivity in the Australian Health Care Sector

Performance evaluation of efficiency change and productivity growth in Supply Chain ‎Management‎

The performance of a supply chain can be evaluated in either a cross-sectional or a time series manner, and data envelopment analysis is a useful method for both types of evaluation. In this paper we develop an index and indicator of productivity change that can be used with radial and non-radial models for supply chain malmquist index. The supply chain malmquist productivity index (SCMPI) can ...