The purpose of this paper is to develop an output oriented methodology for calculating productivity growth by using Malmquist productivity index (MPI) and two different data envelopment analysis (DEA) views (optimistic and pessimistic) simultaneously, and apply it to five Iranian Commercial Banks over the four time period (2009-2013). Consequently, we have proposed a new approach called the dou...

Recognizing the critical role of agricultural sector in the overall growth as well as development performance, this study estimates total factor productivity (TFP) in Indian agriculture at state-level. Using Index of Agricultural Production as the measure of output, changes in TFP are estimated using non-parametric Sequential Malmquist TFP index. The TFP change is decomposed into efficiency cha...

Based on a sample of about 600 state enterprises from 1980 to 1994, this paper investigates the productivity performance of SOEs using Data Envelopment Analysis and a Malmquist index. Our empirical results show that the average technical efficiency was low for these firms. Considerable productivity growth was found, but it was accomplished mainly through technical progress rather than through e...

Productivity has an important and effective role in the growth of production increasing competitiveness countries. In this study, using Malmquist productivity index, total trend factors three sectors Iranian economy (agriculture, industry services) during years 2012-2017 have been discussed. The results showed that study period changes all economic except industrial sector are due to technologi...

The Trade Offs approach is an advanced tool for the improvement of the discrimination of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models, Meta Malmquist Index was defined by Maria Portella and et. al (2008). In this paper we compute the Meta Malmquist Index in Trade Offs model in DEA and we compare, obtaining results, of Meta Malmquist Index in different models of DEA, Variable Return to Scale (VRS), Co...

although economic and managerial literature is replete with studies that probe about productivity but only a few studies decompose it to its components (technological changes, managerial efficiency changes and scale efficiency changes)and analysis their share in productivity changes (positively or negatively). accordingly, this article attempts to explain the issue by decompose productivity to ...

This study seeks to determine the impact of mergers on efficiency and productivity of commercial banks in Malaysia for the period from 1995 until 2005. The study uses a non-parametric approach, namely DEA, to estimate the efficiency scores and to construct the Malmquist productivity index. To enable this estimation, three bank inputs and outputs were used. Amongst the findings are that banks ex...