Amaç: Bu çalışma Türkiye’nin de aralarında bulunduğu on beş gelişmekte olan ülkenin sağlık harcama etkinliğini ölçmeyi amaçlamaktadır.Yöntem: Çalışmada Veri Zarflama Analizi (VZA) tabanlı Malmquist İndeksi (Mİ) yöntemi kullanılmış ve ülke karar verme birimi (KVB) olarak belirlenmiştir. Analizlerde belirlenen 5 girdi 2 çıktının, 2000-2018 dönemine ait verileri kullanılmıştır. KVB’lere veriler DE...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Malmquist–Luenberger index Urban water utilities Greenhouse gas emissions Nonparametric productivity measurement The energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in the provision of urban water and sewerage services have become an increasingly important issue in recent times. However, the impact of negative externalities such as greenhouse gas emissions on the product...

In some data envelopment analysis (DEA) applications, some inputs of DMUs have negative values with positive cost. This paper generalizes the global cost Malmquist productivity index to compare the productivity of dierent DMUs with negative inputs in any two periods of times under variable returns to scale (VRS) technology, and then the generalized index is decomposed to several components. The...

Starting in the 1970’s, the Brazilian agricultural sector has experienced an important process of modernization, whose principal effects include advances in technological progress and gains in productivity. The primary objective of this paper is to analyze technological progress and total productivity growth in the Brazilian agricultural sector during the period from 1970 to 1996. The methodolo...

In this paper, the bootstrapping Malmquist index is used to derive the productivity levels of Iranian steam power plants for the period of 2007e2012. The research shows that the average level of productivity has significantly decreased. It was also indicated that technological changes have had more effects on productivity than efficiency changes. To study the influence of various explanatory fa...

This paper uses a new non-parametric, unconditional, hyperbolic order-α quantile estimator to construct a hyperbolic version of the Malmquist index. Unlike traditional non-parametric efficiency estimators, the new estimator is both robust to data outliers and has a root-n convergence rate. We use this estimator to examine changes in the efficiency and productivity of U.S. banks between 1985 and...

The main challenge for sustainable development of resource cities is to work out a feasible strategy for transformation processes. This paper introduces a new approach for analysis of transformation performance. Using the environmental production technology and a Malmquist resource performance index (MRPI), we conduct σ , absolute β and conditional β convergence tests for the transformation per...

The poverty reduction and financial inclusion of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030 can be significantly facilitated the microfinance industry. However, it is pertinent to assess sustainability institutions (MFIs) in serving this purpose. estimation productivity MFIs Bangladesh gives a glimpse their ability fulfil dual objectives social outreach. Hence, study aims measure using seconda...