______________________________________________________ Abstract The purpose of this study was to analyse the development of productivity and efficiency in the production of hospital care in Finland during the period 1988-1994. A special interest was directed to the impact of health care financing reform in 1993. The analysis is based on the Malmquist index approach using linear programming. Pos...

This paper uses the Luenberger productivity index to evaluate the productivity changes of Greek Life insurance companies between 1994 and 2003, combining operational and financial variables. It is found that the average annual productivity change was about 19% and was due to technological progress, whereas the impact of efficiency was minimal. It seems that deregulation, established by the Thir...

Productivity growth and efficiency improvements are the major sources of economic development. Pure efficiency, scale efficiency, and technology are basic factors, and rules and regulations and balance are recently known factors affecting the productivity growth. This paper focuses on the effect of manpower ethics and physical space facilities of bank branches as two factors affecting the Malmq...

In this paper, we measure productivity growth of the information technology (IT) industries in fourteen OECD countries over the thirteen-year period of 1978 through 1990. The IT industries are the providers of IT capital goods, and this macro-level analysis seeks to find out how efficiently IT capital goods are produced. The basic unit of analysis employed is the Malmquist Total Factor Producti...

Research on the land use efficiency of rural living spaces is at the core of conflicts about current rural land use and ecological environment construction in China. It can be effectively dealt with through the rational and healthy use of rural land, by promoting sustainable development and urban and rural coordination. Building on the foundation of ecosystem metabolism and sustainable developm...

This paper explores the use of the optimisation procedures in SAS/OR software with application to the measurement of e#ciency and productivity of decision-making units (DMUs) using data envelopment analysis (DEA) techniques. DEA was originally introduced by Charnes et al. [J. Oper. Res. 2 (1978) 429] is a linear programming method for assessing the e#ciency and productivity of DMUs. Over the la...