Regulators of electricity distribution networks have typically applied Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to cross-section data for benchmarking purposes. However, the use of panel data to analyse the impact of regulatory policies on productivity change over time is less frequent. The main purpose of this paper is to construct a Malmquist productivity index to examine the recent productivity chang...

In Latin American and Caribbean countries, the main concern of public health care managers has been traditionally placed on problems related to funding, payment mechanisms, equity access. However, more recently, there is a growing interest in improving levels efficiency reducing costs provision services. this paper we focus measuring technical productivity change hospitals Panama using bootstra...

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...

Abstract It is shown that if the equation $$\begin{aligned} f(z+1)^n=R(z,f), \end{aligned}$$ f ( z + 1 ) n = R</mml:...

This study uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the progress/regression of decision-making units (DMUs) having a two-stage structure‎. ‎The progress/regression of these DMU can be assessed in the first stage‎, ‎the second stage‎, ‎and the whole system‎. ‎In the first stage‎, ‎the progress/regression of bank branches in collecting resources and in the second stage their progress/re...

Previous research shows that technical progress at the industry level, measured by sectoral TFP growth, is more localized in continental European countries than in Anglo-Saxon countries. We use EU KLEMS data sets to decompose sectoral TFP for nine European countries by means of a Malmquist approach, in order to separate technical change. Applying Harberger diagrams, we describe the sectoral pat...

Nondiscretionary environmental inputs are critical in explaining relative efficiency differences and productivity changes in public sector applications. For example, the literature on education production shows that school districts perform better when student poverty is lower. In this paper, we extend the nonparametric approach to decompose Malmquist productivity index suggested by Färe et al....

This paper compares the Portuguese and Bulgarian consumer price indices (CPI) and attempts to identify some areas in which the CPI compilation methodology could be improved in the two countries. This work is organised into six sections. The first section briefly describes the organisational structure on which the production of the CPI is based in the two countries. The second section focuses on...