Measuring the efficiency of highway maintenance contracting strategies: A bootstrapped non-parametric meta-frontier approach

Comparative Analysis of Stochastic Frontier Partially non-parametric and Stochastic Frontier Parametric Methods Case Study: Measuring Cost Efficiency in Wheat Production in Iran

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...

A Bootstrap Interval Robust Data Envelopment Analysis for Estimate Efficiency and Ranking Hospitals

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is one of non-parametric methods for evaluating efficiency of each unit. Limited resources in healthcare economy is the main reason in measuring efficiency of hospitals. In this study, a bootstrap interval data envelopment analysis (BIRDEA) is proposed for measuring the efficiency of hospitals affiliated with the Hamedan University of Medical Sciences. The propos...

تاثیر ریسک های اعتباری، عملیاتی و نقدینگی بر کارایی نظام بانکی ایران

This article basically tries to examine the relationship between efficiency and risk in Iranian banking system. The scholars here simply employ two approaches, i.e. parametric (economic-based) approach, and non-parametric (mathematical optimization-based) approach, to assess the efficiency, rank the banks, select the optimal model and at last, identify the impact of credit, operational and liqu...

Measuring Efficiency of Conventional Life Insurance Companies in Bangladesh and Takaful Life Insurance Companies in Malaysia: A Non-Parametric Approach

This study is conducted to measure the actual efficiency comparison of life insurance company between Bangladesh and Malaysia. Total 15 life insurance companies’ were selected for the study where 10 conventional life insurance companies’ from Bangladesh and 5 Takaful lifeinsurance companies’ from Malaysia. Authors tried toindicate the problems and way to get exact solutions by using Data Envelo...