Abstract Efficiencies of Agricultural Credit Associations the US Farm System are measured quarterly from 2005 through 2020. A slacks-based measure based on directional distance function is used with non-performing loans included as an undesirable output. This permitted efficiency scores to be by type defined input or Generally, most were highly efficient, but there was deterioration in mean ove...

The stock evaluation process plays an important role in portfolio selection because it is the prerequisite for investment and directly influences on the stock allocation. This paper presents a methodology based on Data Envelopment Analysis for portfolio selection, decision making units which can be stocks or other financial assets. First, DMUs efficiencies are computed based on input/output, an...

Worldwide the environment in which IT initiatives are deployed is changing. Increasingly, IT investments are being made to produce market outcomes as well as internal operating efficiencies. Learning about the linkage between the IT investments and business value is a critical challenge in the service sector for industries such as financial services, transportation and retailing where IT is end...

Health care providers that have traditionally served the poor are forming their own managed care plans, often in alliance with local safety-net peers. These alliances make it easier to raise needed capital, increase the pool of likely enrollees, and enable plans to benefit from efficiencies of scale. At the same time, however, the alliances often are undermined by conflicts of interest among th...

High temperature and humidity can be controlled in greenhouses by using mechanical refrigeration cooling system such as air conditioner (AC) warm humid regions. This study aims to evaluate the techno-financial aspects of AC-cooled greenhouse compared evaporative cooled (EV-cooled) winter summer seasons. Two quonset single-span prototype were built Agriculture Experiment Station Sultan Qaboos Un...