The present study attempts to model undesirable environmental agricultural outputs with the objective of increasing desirable and decreasing undesirable outputs. Piecewise linear frontier technology is specified. Measures of relative technical efficiencies and returns to scale a…
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Determining the best way for evaluating organizational performance is a complex problem as it involves assessment of indicators in multiple dimensions. In the case of nonprofit social service provision this evaluation needs to consider also the outcomes of the service. This rese…
The Asian financial crisis in 1997 98 left a severe impact on Malaysia s economy and banking system. This has forced the Malaysian government to undertake financial restructuring initiatives to restore market and public confidence, and to meet the ongoing challenges associated w…
Since the open door policy was embarked upon in 1979, China s banking sector has undergone gradual but notable reforms. A key objective of the reforms implemented by the Chinese government is to build an effective, competitive and stable banking system in order to improve its ef…
Measurement and analysis of banking efficiency has received increasing attention in applied economics in recent years due to the rapid globalization of the financial industry and consequently, increasing competitiveness in international financial markets. Efficiency in a general…
This dissertation integrates two important fields of information technology, data mining and data envelopment analysis (DEA), to provide a new tool for measuring the performance of decision making units (DMU). The DEA is a powerful performance measurement methodology for assessi…
DEA has been widely used in branch performance work to evaluate intermediation, profitability and production efficiency. However, traditional modeling approaches fail to assess growth potential and customer retention; two very significant components of a bank's economic health a…
Education planning provides the policy maker and the decision maker a logical framework in which to develop and implement education policy. At the international level, education planning is often confounded by both internal and external complexities, making the development of ed…