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Productivity Changes in Swedish Pharamacies 1980-1989: A Non-Parametric Malmquist Approach
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In this article, a non-parametric linear programming approach for the calculation of a Malmquist productivity index was developed, which is applied to the case of Swedish pharmacies, in order to calculate the productivity index.Abstract:
In this article we develop a non-parametric (linear programming) approach for calculation of a Malmquist (input based) productivity index. The method is applied to the case of Swedish pharmacies.read more
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Data envelopment analysis: The evolution of the state of the art (1978–1995)
TL;DR: The purpose of this paper is to briefly trace the evolution of DEA from the initial publication by Charnes et al. (1978b) to the current state of the art (SOA).
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Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory and Techniques for Economics and Operations Research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of DEA models for productivity, efficiency, and data envelopment analysis, including non-radial models and Pareto-Koopmans measures of technical efficiency.
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Environmental efficiency with multiple environmentally detrimental variables : estimated with SFA and DEA
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare two methods for the calculation of efficiency; namely Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and reveal the strengths and weaknesses for estimating environmental efficiency of the methods applied.
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Estimating and bootstrapping Malmquist indices
Léopold Simar,Paul W. Wilson +1 more
TL;DR: A consistent bootstrap estimation procedure for obtaining confidence intervals for Malmquist indices of productivity and their decompositions and in terms of input-oriented indices is developed.
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Non-parametric efficiency, progress and regress measures for panel data: Methodological aspects☆
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of time in nonparametric efficiency analysis is examined using both FDH and DEA technologies, and it is shown how each observation in a panel can be characterized in efficiency terms vis-a-vis three different kinds of frontiers: (i) "contemporaneous", (ii) "sequential", and (iii) "intertemporal".
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