In this research we employ data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the Malmquist productivity of semiconductor packaging and testing firms in Taiwan from 2000 to 2003. Malmquist productivity has three components: the measurement of technical change, the measurement of the frontier forward shift, and the measurement of the frontier backward shift of a company over two consecutive periods. Thi...

Under the concept of metafrontier, technology gap ratio is alternatively interpreted as potential energy efficiency. Combined with Malmquist index framework and Shephard energy distance function, we then develop a metafrontier Malmquist energy productivity index to analyze the total-factor energy productivity growth with four specific components: groupfrontier efficiency change index, groupfron...

The Malmquist Index methodology is widely used in production economics for measuring the productivity changes of a set of decision making units (DMUs) within different time periods. Moreover, it is quite usual in the management literature to compare public and private DMU performance operating under the same economic sector. However, the standard Malmquist index needs a panel database to be imp...

In this paper, the process of forecasting household energy consumption is studied within framework nonparametric Gaussian Process (GP), using multiple short time series data. As we begin to use smart meter data paint a clearer picture residential electricity use, it becomes increasingly apparent that must also construct detailed and understanding consumer’s complex relationship with gas consump...

the purpose of this study is calculate the rate of total factor productivity (tfp) growth  of rice varieties for different provinces of  iran and then breakdown it to the changes in a technology, management efficiency and scale efficiency. for this purpose we use the nonparametric method of comprehensive data analysis and malmquist productivity index. the used data include the rice varieties pr...

The goal of this study examines the quantitative implications of the Malmquist index in a standard Real Business Cycle (RBC) model as a measure of technology shock. To achieve this, the paper first investigates the empirical validity of the equivalence proposition on the two technology shock measures: a relatively new Malmquist Index and the predominant Solow residual. On the basis of permutati...

The performance of a supply chain can be evaluated in either a cross-sectional or a time series manner, and data envelopment analysis is a useful method for both types of evaluation. In this paper we develop an index and indicator of productivity change that can be used with radial and non-radial models for supply chain malmquist index. The supply chain malmquist productivity index (SCMPI) can ...

In this article we examine the effects of undesirable outputs on the Malmquist TFP indices. Our empirical work uses an unbalanced panel which covers 796 utility and non-utility coal-fired power plants in China during 1996-2002. In order to meet the requirement of a balanced panel for calculating the Malmquist indices, an innovative fake unit approach has been introduced. Our final results show ...

The detection and governmental punitive agency is responsible for supervision on correct implementation of the business laws in Iran. Several criteria are involved in performance assessment of detection and governmental punitive agency. The interaction between criteria and sub-criteria may occur in real situations. Moreover, the performance measurement should be accomplished in a multi-period h...