This analysis investigates the efficiency of Chinese commercial banks between 1997 to 2002. DEA method is employed to estimate overall cost, technical, allocative, pure technical and scale efficiency scores. In the second stage regression, ownership, market share and technology are chosen as the underlying driving factors. To minimize the bias arising from the inherent dependency problem, the b...

This research evaluates the efficiency of swine firms differing by specialization type and employed technologies. Measures of technical, allocative, scale, economic, and overall efficiency are separately and jointly estimated for farrow-to-finish, farrow-to-feeder, feeder-tofinish, farrow-to-weanling, weanling-to-feeder, and mixed operations. Findings confirm appreciable differences in efficien...

bootstrapping the dea is one of the current methods of measuring robust efficiency by constructing a confidence interval and measuring the noise (bias) in production. in this study, two estimators: the conventional data envelopment analysis (dea) and bootstrap simulation with 2,000 bootstrap iterations were applied on a cross sectional data of 296 broiler farms in peninsular malaysia. the objec...

this paper studies the technical efficiency of 12 branches of saman bank over the period 1387-88, relating it to the composition of staff by sex, the ratio of fixed assets to total assets, the age of the branches and the geographic ranking in development indicators of the city where the branch is located in. data envelopment analysis is used to determine the efficiency of branches. the average ...

Further education in England is a diverse sector which typically provides education for the 16 19 age group. This study investigates efficiency levels by subject of study within further education (FE) colleges. Mean overall technical efficiency is found to vary from 75% to 86% in the worstand best-performing subject areas, respectively. Statistical analysis of efficiency reveals that, while stu...

Consumer satisfaction (CS) has been the focus of Marketing to increase consumers’ loyalty and repurchase intentions. This area of research is found in multiple disciplines. The “satisfaction” construct has been used as an indicator of IS success and acceptance in Information System (IS) and e-Commerce in particular. A critical review of the diverse literature reveals a lack of consensus in its ...