This paper uses an innovative approach to evaluate educational performance of Spanish students in PISA 2009. Our purpose is to decompose their overall inefficiency between different components with a special focus on studying the differences between public and state subsidized private schools. We use a technique inspired by the non-parametric Free Disposal Hull (FDH) and the application of robu...

The aim of this study is to investigate the context by which veterinary services may affect technical efficiency (TE) of Iranian dairy farms. A data envelopment analysis (DEA) was applied to a random sample of 840 dairy farms from six provinces across Iran to estimate regional frontier and metafrontier production functions and also to calculate corresponding TE of these farms. The relationship ...

Previous application of the stochastic frontier model and subsequent measurement performance crop sector can be criticized for estimated production function relying on assumption that underlying technology is same different agricultural systems. This paper contributes to estimating regional efficiency technological gap in Norwegian grain farms using metafrontier approach. For this study, we cla...

A franchise business is a contractual relationship in which the franchisor and franchisee should cooperate to promote sustainable growth of their entities. However, it still unclear whether between franchisees franchisors principal–agent or partner sharing goal. Thus, this study first attempt investigate franchises using metafrontier bootstrap DEA from perspective efficiency. We measured effici...

The objective of this study was to compare productivity growth and quality changes in teaching non-teaching hospitals Taiwan using a quality-based Malmquist index under metafrontier framework. Researchers have argued that are more costly than hospitals. Whether Taiwanese operate with higher is important determine given increasing financial pressure on results show that, among the sample, both t...