Abstract In the last decades, there has been a growing interest in measuring efficiency of hospitals using different methodological approaches, mainly represented by data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier (SFA). this study, we estimate measures performance for sample Panamanian public over an 11‐year period (2005–2015) both traditional methods (DEA SFA) compare them with effici...

Several studies have focused attention on the differences between organic and conventional farms in terms of efficiency, controversial findings resulted from these applications. One source controversy concerns assumption about frontier(s) adopted for comparison: a common frontier or two separate frontiers methods? This paper aims to estimate technical efficiency Italian grape farming. A stochas...

Enterprises are investing heavily in cloud data centers to meet the ever surging business demand. Data Center is a facility, which houses computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. It generally includes power supply equipment, communication connections and cooling equipment. A large data center can use as much electricity as a small town. In toda...

The technical and allocative efficiency of broadacre farmers in a southern region of Western Australia is investigated over a three-year period. Applying data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) reveals there is some inefficiency in each year, which decreases over time. The distributions of technical efficiency in each year are positively skewed toward higher effic...

In the health economics literature there is an ongoing debate over approaches used to estimate the efficiency of health systems at various levels, from the level of the individual hospital - or nursing home - up to that of the health system as a whole. The two most widely used approaches to evaluating the efficiency with which various units deliver care are non-parametric data envelopment analy...

This paper presents a performance evaluation of European airports, based on the application both parametric and non-parametric approaches. We have evaluated 115 busiest airports in Europe according to number passengers checked-in 2018. The four inputs we used were Terminals, Runways, Boarding gates, Aircraft stands. Three variables describe outputs, namely, Passengers, Movements, Cargo. method ...

This paper adopts the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to model working capital efficiency (WCE) on a sample of 6170 European firms from 2009 2018. We find: (i) larger are more efficient with their management (WCM) than smaller firms, (ii) higher cash holding contributes WCE, (iii) high competition is less conducive WCE low competition, (iv) export and sales growth potential decrease (v) incr...