This paper ranks the pension funds management companies according to their change in total productivity for the period 1994–2007. We estimate the change in total productivity, breaking this down into technically efficient change and technological change by means of data envelopment analysis (DEA-Malmquist index). The aim of this procedure is to seek out those best practices that will lead to im...

The study examines the changes to total factor productivity of Jamaican banks between 1998 and 2007. Using Data Envelopment Analysis with bootstrap to construct a Malmquist index, bank productivity is measured and decomposed into technical progress and efficiency. The results suggest an inconsistent growth pattern for banks between 1998 and 2007 driven mainly by efficiency gains in the immediat...

an integrative approach of data envelopment analysis (dea) and malmquist productivity indicator for performance analysis of projects in subsea r&d; center (srdc) is presented. it is noticeable that, an output based model with constant efficiency was used for data analysis. furthermore, since the dea approach is merely used for homogeneous units, it was assumed that all the projects according to...

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...

We have performed Monte Carlo simulations of type Ia supernova (SN Ia) surveys to determine their efficiency in discovering peculiar overluminous and underluminous SNe Ia. We determined how the type of survey (magnitudelimited, distance-limited, or a hybrid) and its characteristics (observations frequency, detection limit, and host limit) affect the discovery of peculiar SNe Ia. We find that th...