European countries have enhanced the scope of private provision within their health care
systems. Privatizing services have been suggested as a means to improve access, quality …

The paper presents a novel cross-efficiency fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
technique for evaluating different elements (Decision Making Units or DMUs) under …

The foremost broadly utilized strategy for the valuation of the overall performance of a set of
identical decision-making units (DMUs) that use analogous sources to yield related outputs …

In this paper, we extend the 4‐random‐component closed skew‐normal stochastic frontier
model by including exogenous determinants of hospital persistent (long‐run) and transient …

This paper reports on the use of different approaches for assessing efficiency of a sample of
major Brazilian for-profit hospitals. Starting out with the bootstrapping technique, several …

This article examines how different components of an agricultural innovation system interact
to determine levels of technical inefficiency in developing‐country agriculture. The analysis …

Abstract The Vietnamese Land Law of 2013 imposed an upper threshold on how much land
a farmer may possess. This is a policy that has been found to constrain agricultural …

Efficiency and productivity analysis have been critical in healthcare and economics
literature. Despite the tremendous innovation in methodology and data availability, a …

Background Restrictions on resource accessibility and its optimal application is the main
challenge in organizations nowadays. The aim of this research was to study the technical …

In the last decades, there has been a growing interest in measuring the efficiency of
hospitals using different methodological approaches, mainly represented by data …