This paper ranks the pension funds management companies according to their change in total productivity for the period 1994–2007. We estimate the change in total productivity, breaking this down into technically efficient change and technological change by means of data envelopment analysis (DEA-Malmquist index). The aim of this procedure is to seek out those best practices that will lead to im...

The study examines the changes to total factor productivity of Jamaican banks between 1998 and 2007. Using Data Envelopment Analysis with bootstrap to construct a Malmquist index, bank productivity is measured and decomposed into technical progress and efficiency. The results suggest an inconsistent growth pattern for banks between 1998 and 2007 driven mainly by efficiency gains in the immediat...

Aim: Completeness of indicator information is an important problem that needs to be further studied in environmental management efficiency evaluation (EMEE). However, this has not attracted sufficient attention existing studies and there lack the total factor productivity analysis, which effective method evaluate change been applied different fields. Methods: A novel EMEE model proposed based o...

In this paper the Malmquist index of total factor productivity is applied to a sample of 87 countries observed over the period 1960-90. This index and the method needed to quantify it, the data envelopment analysis, has substantial advantages as compared to traditional growth accounting. Two of these advantages are that it does not rely on questionable equilibrium assumptions to merge multiple ...

in many real applications, the data of production processes can't be precisely measured.we develop some fuzzy versions of the classical dea models (in particular, the ccrmodel) by using some ranking methods based on the comparison of cuts. our approachescan be seen as an extension of the dea methodology. the provides users and practitionerswith models which represent some real life processes mo...

in many real applications, the data of production processes can't be precisely measured.we develop some fuzzy versions of the classical dea models (in particular, the ccrmodel) by using some ranking methods based on the comparison of cuts. our approachescan be seen as an extension of the dea methodology. the provides users and practitionerswith models which represent some real life process...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is an important factor in building a strong economy for country, particularly developing and emerging markets. Both domestic enterprises policy makers have been motivated to attract FDI the benefits of FDI, such as technological transfers, spillover benefits, rising competition. There need functional model assess how competitive index affects attractiveness. Ther...