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2. Benchmarking of maintenance and outage repair in an electricity distribution company using the value-based DEA method. (2015). Dias, Luis ; Gouveia, M. C. ; Boucinha, J. ; Antunes, C. H. ; Inacio, C. F..
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3. Energy Efficiency in Electricity Production: A Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Approach for the G-20 Countries. (2015). Tugcu, Can ; Dogan, Nuri Ozgur.
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4. Testing Serial Independence via Density-Based Measures of Divergence. (2014). de Capitani, Lucio ; Bagnato, Luca ; Punzo, Antonio.
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5. Explaining efficiency in municipal services providers. (2014). Moreno Enguix, Maria del Rocio ; Benito, Bernardino ; Solana, Jose .
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7. Overcoming the infeasibility of super-efficiency DEA model: a model with generalized orientation. (2011). Zervopoulos, Panagiotis ; Qian, Zhenhua ; Cheng, Gang.
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8. L’EFFICIENCE DES COOPERATIVES DE SERVICES FINANCIERS : UNE ANALYSE DE LA CONTRIBUTION DU MILIEU. (2010). Fortin, Mario ; Leclerc, Andre.
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9. Measuring the effect of virtual mergers on banks’ efficiency levels:A non parametric analysis. (2010). Tzeremes, Nickolaos ; HALKOS, GEORGE.
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10. Predicting Japanese bank stock performance with a composite relative efficiency metric: A new investment tool. (2010). Avkiran, Necmi K. ; Morita, Hiroshi.
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11. Productive efficiency of the Spanish regional public firms: The case of the philharmonic orchestras. (2009). Colina, Alí ; GUTIeRREZ, Baudelio URUEA ; Rojas, Ali Colina .
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12. Größenvorteile im deutschen ÖSPV – Eine empirische Analyse. (2009). Hartwig, Karl-Hans ; Scheffler, Raimund .
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13. Avaliação da Eficiência Técnica dos Países nos Jogos Olímpicos de Pequim – 2008. (2009). de Almeida, Vivian Vicente ; Simone de Souza Cardoso, ; Marinho, Alexandre.
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14. A nonparametric test for equality of distributions with mixed categorical and continuous data. (2009). Racine, Jeffrey ; Maasoumi, Esfandiar ; Li, Qi.
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15. A smoothed bootstrap test for independence based on mutual information. (2009). Yu, Philip ; Wu, Edmond H. C., ; Li, W. K..
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16. Micro-heterogeneity and aggregate productivity development in the German manufacturing sector. (2008). Krüger, Jens ; Cantner, Uwe ; Kruger, Jens.
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17. Efficiency vectors, efficiency and performance measures: new methods for ranking efficient organizational units. (2008). Muller, Jens.
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18. Far out or alone in the crowd: a taxonomy of peers in DEA. (2008). Kittelsen, Sverre ; Førsund, Finn ; Edvardsen, Dag .
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19. Sensitivity of super-efficient data envelopment analysis results to individual decision-making units: an example of surgical workload by specialty. (2008). ONeill, Liam ; Xin, Lei ; Ledolter, Johannes ; Dexter, Franklin.
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20. The Luenberger Productivity Indicator: An Economic Specifcation Leading to Infeasibilities.. (2008). Kerstens, Kristiaan ; Briec, Walter.
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21. Next Stop: Restructuring?: A Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis of German Public Transport Companies. (2008). Hirschhausen, Christian ; Cullmann, Astrid.
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22. Examining the relationship between firm internationalization and firm performance: A nonparametric analysis. (2007). Tzeremes, Nickolaos ; HALKOS, GEORGE.
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23. On the use of data envelopment analysis in hedge fund performance appraisal. (2007). Nguyen, Thi Thanh Huyen.
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24. Performance measurement and best-practice benchmarking of mutual funds: combining stochastic dominance criteria with data envelopment analysis. (2007). Kuosmanen, Timo.
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25. Improving discrimination in data envelopment analysis: some practical suggestions. (2007). Podinovski, Victor ; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel.
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26. Financial liberalization and banking efficiency: evidence from Turkey. (2007). Denizer, Cevdet ; Dinc, Mustafa ; Tarimcilar, Murat.
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27. Measuring Regional Innovativeness - A Methodological Discussion and an Application to One German Industry. (2007). Broekel, Tom ; Brenner, Thomas.
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28. Inferring the Latent Incidence of Inefficiency from DEA Estimates and Bayesian Priors. (2006). Rosenman, Robert ; Mittelhammer, Ron ; Friesner, Daniel.
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29. Inferring the Latent Incidence of Inefficiency from DEA Estimates and Bayesian Priors. (2006). Rosenman, Robert ; Mittelhammer, Ron ; Friesner, Daniel.
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30. Nonparametric Econometrics: Theory and Practice. (2006). Li, QI ; Racine, Jeffrey Scott .
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31. Performance measurement of hedge funds using data envelopment analysis. (2006). Eling, Martin.
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32. Quantitative selection of hedge funds using data envelopment analysis. (2006). Nguyen, Thi Thanh Huyen.
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33. Graduation Rates and Accountability: Regressions versus Production Frontiers. (2006). Feldman, David ; Archibald, Robert B..
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34. Nonparametric Tests for Serial Independence Based on Quadratic Forms. (2005). Panchenko, Valentyn ; Diks, Cees.
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35. Agricultural Economics Education in Ukrainian Agricultural Universities: An Efficiency Analysis Using Data Envelopment Analysis. (2005). Rao, D.S. Prasada ; Coelli, Timothy ; Lissitsa, Alexej.
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36. Aggregate investment dynamics when firms face fixed investment cost and capital market imperfections. (2004). Bayer, Christian.
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37. Aggregate investment dynamics when firms face fixed investment cost and capital market imperfections. (2004). Bayer, Christian.
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38. Technical Efficiency and Its Dynamics in Indian Manufacturing: An Inter-State Analysis. (2004). Ray, Subhash ; Mukherjee, Kankana.
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39. The Directional Distance Function and Measurement of Super-Efficiency: An Application to Airlines Data. (2004). Ray, Subhash.
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40. Productivity transitions in the US manufacturing sector. (2004). Krüger, Jens ; Kruger, Jens J..
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41. ON THE DETERMINANTS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE: A TWO-STAGE NONPARAMETRIC APPROACH. (2004). Tortosa-Ausina, Emili ; Prior, Diego ; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa ; Tortosaausina, Emili.
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42. Has China’s Economic Reform Improved Enterprise Performance? A DEA Evaluation Of China’s Large And Medium Enterprises. (2004). Yang, Qing ; Gong, Yang Qing.
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43. A Dependence Metric for Possibly Nonlinear Processes. (2004). Racine, Jeffrey ; Maasoumi, Esfandiar.
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44. Russischer Agrarsektor im Aufschwung? Eine Analyse der technischen und Skaleneffizienz der Agrarunternehmen. (2003). Stange, Henriette ; Lissitsa, Alexej.
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45. The efficiency of health production: re‐estimating the WHO panel data using parametric and non‐parametric approaches to provide additional information. (2003). Wildman, John ; Hollingsworth, Bruce.
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46. The Invisible College of The Economics of Innovation and Technological Change. (2003). Werker, Claudia.
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47. The performance of auction houses selling Picasso prints. (2002). Zanola, Roberto ; Førsund, Finn ; Forsund, Finn.
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48. Lancasters characteristics approach revisited: product selection using non-parametric methods. (2002). Smith, Peter C. ; Fernandez-Castro, Angel S..
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49. School Outcomes: Sharing the Responsibility Between Pupil and School1. (2002). Silva, Maria ; Thanassoulis, Emmanuel.
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50. The performance of auction houses selling Picasso Prints.. (2002). Zanola, Roberto ; Førsund, Finn ; Forsund, Finn R..
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51. Wie beeinflusst das Umfeld einer Bank die Effizienz? - Eine DEA-Analyse fuer die Bayerischen Genossenschaftsbanken. (2002). Wutz, Andreas.
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52. International benchmarking of electricity distribution utilities.. (2001). Førsund, Finn ; Forsund, Finn R. ; Edvardsen, Dag Fjeld.
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53. Selling Picasso paintings: the efficiency of auction houses.. (2001). Zanola, Roberto ; Førsund, Finn ; Forsund, Finn R..
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54. THE RANDOM WALK OF STOCK PRICES: IMPLICATIONS OF RECENT NONPARA-METRIC TESTS. (2001). Dahl, Christian ; Nielsen, Steen.
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55. New Tools for Dealing with Errors-in-Variables in DEA. (2000). Post, Thierry ; Kuosmanen, Timo ; Cherchye, Laurens.
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56. New Models for Data Envelopment Analysis. Measuring Efficiency Outwith the VRS Frontier. (2000). Paterson, Iain.
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57. Multisample tests for scale based on kernel density estimation. (2000). Mizushima, Takamasa.
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58. Super Efficiency Evaluations Based on Potential Slack. (2000). Hougaard, Jens ; Bogetoft, Peter.
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59. Efficiency and productivity of Norwegian colleges. (1999). Førsund, Finn ; FORSUND, F. R..
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60. Efficiency in Northern Ireland Hospitals - A Non-parametric Analysis. (1999). McCallion, Gillian ; Donal. G. McKillop, ; Glass, Colin J. ; Kerr, Christine A..
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61. An Analysis of Productive Efficiency of University Commercialization Activities.. (1998). Thursby, Jerry ; Kemp, S..
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62. The Impact of Internal Markets on Health Care Efficiency: Evidence from Health Care Reforms in Sweden. (1997). Gerdtham, Ulf-G. ; Tambour, Magnus ; Gerdtham, Ulf-G., ; Rehnberg, Clas.
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