DECOMPOSING REGIONAL EFFICIENCY*

Decomposing Cost Efficiency in Regional Long-term Care Provision in Japan.

Many developed countries face a growing need for long-term care provision because of population ageing. Japan is one such example, given its population's longevity and low birth rate. In this study, we examine the efficiency of Japan's regional long-term care system in FY2010 by performing a data envelopment analysis, a non-parametric frontier approach, on prefectural data and separating cost e...

Evaluating the Efficiency of Iranian Regional Railways

Railway transportation plays an important role in the economic development of Iran. National Iranian Railways includes fifteen regional railways which operate independently, but under the supervision of National Iranian Railways Company. Evaluating the efficiency of regional railways is an important issue in Iran and is one of the bases for budget and resource allocation for further developmen...

Decomposing profit efficiency using a slack-based directional distance function

This paper develops a slack-based decomposition of profit efficiency based on a directional distance function.

Regional Technical Efficiency in Europe

Regional Efficiency, Innovation and Productivity

A blossoming stream of the regional innovation systems (RIS) literature is being devoted to investigate the relationship between RIS efficiency and productivity growth. Our study aims at evaluating: first, the ex-post relative technical efficiency in innovation in a sample of OECD regions by means of a DEA (data envelopment analysis) methodology. We will also match these results with regression...