This paper explores the efficiency of European specialist and composite insurers transacting long-term insurance business. Value measures of insurance company inputs and outputs are utilised to undertake an exploration of the technical efficiency of European insurers. This is achieved by benchmarking the relative performance of insurers licensed to transact long-term business in fifteen Europea...

the aim of this study was to assess the relative efficiency of the iranian forest management plans using the non-parametric method – data envelopment analysis (dea) as a well-known and robust technique for measuring the relative efficiency of organizations. the relative efficiency of forest management plans was calculated using the most frequency dea models such as global technical efficiency (...

    Background: Assessment of hospitals’ performance in achieving its goals is a basic necessity. Measuring the efficiency of hospitals in order to boost resource productivity in healthcare organizations is extremely important. The aim of this study was to measure technical efficiency and determining status of resource allocation in some university hospitals, in Tehran, Iran.   Methods : This s...

The main objective of this study was to apply the non-parametric method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure the efficiency of Greek NHS hospitals between 2009-2013. Hospitals were divided into four separate groups with common characteristics which allowed comparisons to be carried out in the context of increased homogeneity. The window-DEA method was chosen since it leads to increased...

BACKGROUND Many large-scaled public hospitals have established branched hospitals in China. This study is to provide evidence for strategy making on the management and development of multi-branched hospitals by evaluating and comparing the operational efficiencies of different hospitals before and after their establishment of branched hospitals. METHODS DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) window ...

The aim of this study was to assess the relative efficiency of the Iranian forest management plans using the non-parametric method – Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a well-known and robust technique for measuring the relative efficiency of organizations. The relative efficiency of forest management plans was calculated using the most frequency DEA models such as global technical efficiency (...

This paper tries to analyze Chinese three types of bank’s efficiency changes and differences, after the financial crisis, through the integrated use of DEA and super efficiency DEA method. The results show that: the efficiency of Chinese commercial Banks in general is on the rise, the comprehensive technical efficiency growth stems mainly from scale efficiency improvement, pure technical effici...