The efficiency of public transport operations – An evaluation using stochastic frontier analysis

assessment of the efficiency of s.p.g.c refineries using network dea

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

Technical Efficiency of Teaching Hospitals in Iran: The Use of Stochastic Frontier Analysis, 1999–2011

Background Hospitals are highly resource-dependent settings, which spend a large proportion of healthcare financial resources. The analysis of hospital efficiency can provide insight into how scarce resources are used to create health values. This study examines the Technical Efficiency (TE) of 12 teaching hospitals affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) between 1999 and 2...

Execution Capabilities of Distributed Technology Projects: A Comparative Evaluation of Efficiency Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Efficiency of projects is a central concern in project management. Such concerns have only been exacerbated with projects being increasingly distributed across firm and country boundaries. This study has a two-fold research agenda: First, it provides an understanding of how the efficiency of projects varies across project organization types, namely, Insourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Offs...

Stochastic Non-Parametric Frontier Analysis

In this paper we develop an approach that synthesizes the best features of the two main methods in the estimation of production efficiency. Specically, our approach first allows for statistical noise, similar to Stochastic frontier analysis, and second, it allows modeling multiple-inputs-multiple-outputs technologies without imposing parametric assumptions on production relationship, similar to...

The Efficiency of German Public Theaters: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis Approach