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Maria CA Silva

Not to be confused with: Maria Silva

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Antonio Peyrache & Maria C. A. Silva, 2022. "A Comment on Decomposition of Efficiency in Network Production Models," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072022, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

    Cited by:

    1. Antonio Peyrache & Maria C. A. Silva, 2023. "Efficiency decomposition for multi-level multi-components production technologies," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(3), pages 273-294, December.

  2. Antonio Peyrache & Maria C. A. Silva, 2021. "Multi-Level Parallel Production Networks," CEPA Working Papers Series WP052021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

    Cited by:

    1. Antonio Peyrache & Maria C. A. Silva, 2022. "A Comment on Decomposition of Efficiency in Network Production Models," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072022, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

  3. Antonio Peyrache & Maria C. A. Silva, 2019. "The Inefficiency of Production Systems and its decomposition," CEPA Working Papers Series WP052019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

    Cited by:

    1. Antonio Peyrache & Maria C. A. Silva, 2022. "Efficiency and Productivity Analysis from a System Perspective: Historical Overview," Springer Books, in: Duangkamon Chotikapanich & Alicia N. Rambaldi & Nicholas Rohde (ed.), Advances in Economic Measurement, chapter 0, pages 173-230, Springer.

  4. Susana Faria & Maria Conceição Portela, 2016. "Student Performance in Mathematics using PISA-2009 data for Portugal," Working Papers de Gestão (Management Working Papers) 01, Católica Porto Business School, Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

    Cited by:

    1. Antonella D’Agostino & Francesco Schirripa Spagnolo & Nicola Salvati, 2022. "Studying the relationship between anxiety and school achievement: evidence from PISA data," Statistical Methods & Applications, Springer;Società Italiana di Statistica, vol. 31(1), pages 1-20, March.
    2. Francesco Schirripa Spagnolo & Nicola Salvati & Antonella D’Agostino & Ides Nicaise, 2020. "The use of sampling weights in M‐quantile random‐effects regression: an application to Programme for International Student Assessment mathematics scores," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 69(4), pages 991-1012, August.

  5. Maria Conceição Portela, 2013. "Value And Quantity Data In Economic And Technical Efficiency Measurement," Working Papers de Economia (Economics Working Papers) 03, Católica Porto Business School, Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

    Cited by:

    1. Ane Elixabete Ripoll-Zarraga & Sebastián Lozano, 2020. "A centralised DEA approach to resource reallocation in Spanish airports," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 288(2), pages 701-732, May.

  6. M. C. Portela & A. S. Camanho, 2007. "Performance Assessment of Portuguese Secondary Schools," Working Papers de Economia (Economics Working Papers) 07, Católica Porto Business School, Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

    Cited by:

    1. M. Portela & A. Camanho & A. Keshvari, 2013. "Assessing the evolution of school performance and value-added: trends over four years," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 39(1), pages 1-14, February.
    2. Deutsch, Joseph & Dumas, Audrey & Silber, Jacques, 2013. "Estimating an educational production function for five countries of Latin America on the basis of the PISA data," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 36(C), pages 245-262.
    3. Henriques, C.O. & Marcenaro-Gutierrez, O.D., 2021. "Efficiency of secondary schools in Portugal: A novel DEA hybrid approach," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    4. Khalili, M. & Camanho, A.S. & Portela, M.C.A.S. & Alirezaee, M.R., 2010. "The measurement of relative efficiency using data envelopment analysis with assurance regions that link inputs and outputs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 203(3), pages 761-770, June.

Articles

  1. Piran, Fabio Sartori & Lacerda, Daniel Pacheco & Camanho, Ana S. & Silva, Maria C.A., 2021. "Internal benchmarking to assess the cost efficiency of a broiler production system combining data envelopment analysis and throughput accounting," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 238(C).

    Cited by:

    1. Vilarinho, Hermilio & D’Inverno, Giovanna & Nóvoa, Henriqueta & Camanho, Ana S., 2023. "The measurement of asset management performance of water companies," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 87(PA).
    2. Rafael Marques & Rafael Teixeira & Daniel P. Lacerda & Fabio S. Piran, 2023. "Exploring outsourcing service productivity from the buyer and supplier perspective: A case analysis in the fleet maintenance industry," Operations Management Research, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 853-867, June.
    3. Miloš Lukić & Veselin Petričević & Nikola Delić & Nataša Tolimir & Vladimir Dosković & Simeon Rakonjac & Zdenka Škrbić, 2022. "How Does the Choice of Genotype and Feed in the Local Market Affect Broiler Performance and the Farm Economy? A Case Study in Serbia," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 12(6), pages 1-15, June.
    4. Machado, Mariana Paim & Abreu, Jaqueline Lilge & Morandi, Maria Isabel Motta & Piran, Fabio Sartori & Lacerda, Daniel Pacheco, 2023. "Exploratory decision robustness analysis of the theory of constraints focusing process using system dynamics modeling," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 260(C).

  2. Silva, Maria C.A. & Camanho, Ana S. & Barbosa, Flávia, 2020. "Benchmarking of secondary schools based on Students’ results in higher education," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).

    Cited by:

    1. Laura Carosi & Ana Camanho & Giovanna D’Inverno & Kristof Witte & Rossana Riccardi, 2020. "Preface to the special issue on performance measurement and efficiency analysis—theory and practice," Decisions in Economics and Finance, Springer;Associazione per la Matematica, vol. 43(2), pages 409-412, December.
    2. Mergoni, Anna & Soncin, Mara & Agasisti, Tommaso, 2023. "The effect of ICT on schools’ efficiency: Empirical evidence on 23 European countries," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    3. Silva, Pedro Luís & DesJardins, Stephen L. & Biscaia, Ricardo & Sá, Carla & Teixeira, Pedro N., 2023. "Public and Private School Grade Inflations Patterns in Secondary Education," IZA Discussion Papers 16016, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    4. Kadziński, Miłosz & Stamenković, Mladen & Uniejewski, Maciej, 2022. "Stepwise benchmarking for multiple criteria sorting," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 108(C).
    5. Francesco Chelli & Mariateresa Ciommi & Francesca Mariani & Gloria Polinesi & Maria Cristina Recchioni & Giuseppe Ricciardo Lamonica & Luca Salvati, 2022. "A Story of Strengths and Weaknesses in Tertiary Education: Evaluating ‘Mobility’ and ‘Opportunities’ in OECD Countries with Composite Indicators," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(24), pages 1-19, December.

  3. Silva, Maria Conceição A., 2018. "Output-specific inputs in DEA: An application to courts of justice in Portugal," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 43-53.

    Cited by:

    1. Bogetoft, Peter & Wittrup, Jesper, 2021. "Benefit-of-the-doubt approach to workload indicators: Simplifying the use of case weights in court evaluations," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).
    2. Mattsson, Pontus & Tidanå, Claes, 2019. "Potential efficiency effects of merging the Swedish district courts," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 67(C), pages 58-68.
    3. Majid Azadi & Balal Karimi & William Ho & Reza Farzipoor Saen, 2022. "Assessing green performance of power plants by multiple hybrid returns to scale technologies," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 44(4), pages 1177-1211, December.
    4. Per J. Agrell & Pontus Mattsson & Jonas Mansson, 2019. "Impacts on efficiency of merging the Swedish district courts," LIDAM Reprints CORE 3042, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
    5. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Disaggregation for efficiency analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 51(2), pages 137-151, June.
    6. Walheer, Barnabé, 2019. "Aggregating Farrell efficiencies with private and public inputs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 276(3), pages 1170-1177.
    7. Francesco Aiello & Graziella Bonanno & Francesco Foglia, 2021. "On The Heterogeneity In The Judicial Efficiency Literature: A Meta-Regression Analysis," Working Papers 202102, Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza "Giovanni Anania" - DESF.
    8. Jonas Månsson & Christian Andersson & Fredrik Bonander, 2022. "What lessons can be learned from cost efficiency? The case of Swedish district courts," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 54(3), pages 431-451, December.
    9. Xiaoqing Chen & Kristiaan Kerstens, 2022. "Evaluating horizontal mergers in Swedish district courts using plant capacity concepts: with a focus on nonconvexity," Post-Print halshs-03924994, HAL.
    10. Antonio Peyrache & Maria C. A. Silva, 2023. "Efficiency decomposition for multi-level multi-components production technologies," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(3), pages 273-294, December.
    11. Barnabé Walheer, 2020. "Output, input, and undesirable output interconnections in data envelopment analysis: convexity and returns-to-scale," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 284(1), pages 447-467, January.
    12. Walheer, Barnabe & Hudik, Marek, 2019. "Reallocation of resources in multidivisional firms: A nonparametric approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 196-205.
    13. Papaioannou, Grammatoula & Podinovski, Victor V., 2023. "Multicomponent production technologies with restricted allocations of shared inputs and outputs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 308(1), pages 274-289.

  4. Jill Johnes & Maria Portela & Emmanuel Thanassoulis, 2017. "Efficiency in education," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 331-338, April.

    Cited by:

    1. Oleg Badunenko & Daniel J. Henderson, 2024. "Production analysis with asymmetric noise," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 61(1), pages 1-18, February.
    2. Moonyoung Eom & Hyungchul Yoo & Jisung Yoo, 2022. "Efficiency and Productivity of Local Educational Administration in Korea Using the Malmquist Productivity Index," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-14, April.
    3. Solmaz Ghaffarian Asl & Necdet Osam, 2021. "A Study of Teacher Performance in English for Academic Purposes Course: Evaluating Efficiency," SAGE Open, , vol. 11(4), pages 21582440211, October.
    4. Stylianos Gr. Margaritis & Constantinos P. Tsamadias & Elias E. Argyropoulos, 2022. "Investigating the Relative Efficiency and Productivity Change of Upper Secondary Schools: the Case of Schools in the Region of Central Greece," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 13(1), pages 128-160, March.
    5. Marius Sorin Dincă & Gheorghiţa Dincă & Maria Letiţia Andronic & Anna Maria Pasztori, 2021. "Assessment of the European Union’s Educational Efficiency," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-29, March.
    6. Yang, Min & Zhang, Maolin & Yin, Pengzhen & Liang, Liang, 2023. "Performance evaluation of scientific research system in Chinese universities: A view of goal congruence," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 87(PA).
    7. K. Kounetas & G. Androulakis & M. Kaisari & G. Manousakis, 2023. "Educational reforms and secondary school's efficiency performance in Greece: a bootstrap DEA and multilevel approach," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 23(1), pages 1-29, March.
    8. Brzezicki Łukasz & Pietrzak Piotr & Cieciora Małgorzata, 2020. "The Total Efficiency of Teaching Activity of Polish Higher Education Institutions," Foundations of Management, Sciendo, vol. 12(1), pages 19-30, January.
    9. Queiroz, Marcelo Victor Alves Bila & Sampaio, Raquel Menezes Bezerra & Sampaio, Luciano Menezes Bezerra, 2020. "Dynamic efficiency of primary education in Brazil: Socioeconomic and infrastructure influence on school performance," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).
    10. D’Inverno, Giovanna & Smet, Mike & De Witte, Kristof, 2021. "Impact evaluation in a multi-input multi-output setting: Evidence on the effect of additional resources for schools," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 290(3), pages 1111-1124.
    11. Ma, Zhanxin & See, Kok Fong & Yu, Ming-Miin & Zhao, Chunying, 2021. "Research efficiency analysis of China's university faculty members: A modified meta-frontier DEA approach," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 76(C).
    12. Eugénia de Matos Pedro & João Leitão & Helena Alves, 2021. "HEI Efficiency and Quality of Life: Seeding the Pro-Sustainability Efficiency," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(2), pages 1-25, January.
    13. Yang, Guo-liang & Fukuyama, Hirofumi & Song, Yao-yao, 2018. "Measuring the inefficiency of Chinese research universities based on a two-stage network DEA model," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 12(1), pages 10-30.
    14. Łukasz Brzezicki & Piotr Pietrzak, 2018. "Efektywność i skuteczność studiów doktoranckich w publicznym szkolnictwie wyższym w Polsce," Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, issue 2, pages 129-159.
    15. Berbegal-Mirabent, Jasmina & Gil-Doménech, Dolors & de la Torre, Rocío, 2019. "Dealing with heterogeneity: An analysis of Spanish universities," TEC Empresarial, School of Business, Costa Rica Institute of Technology (ITCR), vol. 13(3), pages 58-77.
    16. Ogundari, Kolawole, 2021. "A systematic review of statistical methods for estimating an education production function," MPRA Paper 105283, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    17. Lipeng Chen & Yang Yu & Amsalu K. Addis & Xiao Guo, 2022. "Empirical Assessment and Comparison of Educational Efficiency between Major Countries across the World," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-17, March.
    18. Contreras, I. & Lozano, S., 2020. "Allocating additional resources to public universities. A DEA bargaining approach," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    19. Mayerle, Sérgio F. & Rodrigues, Hidelbrando F. & Neiva de Figueiredo, João & De Genaro Chiroli, Daiane M., 2022. "Optimal student/school/class/teacher/classroom matching to support efficient public school system resource allocation," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
    20. Manuel Salas‐Velasco, 2020. "Assessing the performance of Spanish secondary education institutions: Distinguishing between transient and persistent inefficiency, separated from heterogeneity," Manchester School, University of Manchester, vol. 88(4), pages 531-555, July.

  5. Thanassoulis, Emmanuel & Silva Portela, Maria & Graveney, Mike, 2016. "Identifying the scope for savings at inpatient episode level: An illustration applying DEA to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 255(2), pages 570-582.

    Cited by:

    1. Mustafa Jahangoshai Rezaee & Abuzar Karimdadi & Hamidreza Izadbakhsh, 2019. "Road map for progress and attractiveness of Iranian hospitals by integrating self-organizing map and context-dependent DEA," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 22(3), pages 410-436, September.
    2. Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann, 2022. "Health care quality in nonparametric efficiency studies: a review," Central European Journal of Operations Research, Springer;Slovak Society for Operations Research;Hungarian Operational Research Society;Czech Society for Operations Research;Österr. Gesellschaft für Operations Research (ÖGOR);Slovenian Society Informatika - Section for Operational Research;Croatian Operational Research Society, vol. 30(1), pages 67-131, March.
    3. Apostolos Christopoulos & Ioannis Dokas & Sofia Katsimardou & Eleftherios Spyromitros, 2022. "The Malmquist Productivity measure for UK-listed firms in the aftermath of the global financial crisis," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 1617-1634, April.

  6. Portela, Maria Conceição A. Silva & Thanassoulis, Emmanuel, 2014. "Economic efficiency when prices are not fixed: disentangling quantity and price efficiency," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 47(C), pages 36-44.

    Cited by:

    1. Diego Prior & Emili Tortosa-Ausina & Manuel Illueca & Mª Pilar Garcí­a-Alcober, 2014. "Earnings quality and performance in the banking industry: A profit frontier approach," Working Papers 2014/11, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
    2. Sotiros, Dimitrios & Rodrigues, Vasco & Silva, Maria Conceição, 2022. "Analysing the export potentials of the Portuguese footwear industry by data envelopment analysis," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 108(C).
    3. Ayouba, Kassoum & Boussemart, Jean-Philippe & Lefer, Henri-Bertrand & Leleu, Hervé & Parvulescu, Raluca, 2019. "A measure of price advantage and its decomposition into output- and input-specific effects," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 276(2), pages 688-698.
    4. Boussemart, Jean-Philippe & Leleu, Hervé & Parvulescu, Raluca, 2022. "Value-based performance and its decomposition into direct price and quantity effects," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(1), pages 298-311.
    5. Viera Mendelová, 2021. "Decomposition of cost efficiency with adjustable prices: an application of data envelopment analysis," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 21(4), pages 2739-2770, December.
    6. Pastor, Jesus T. & Zofío, José Luis & Aparicio, Juan & Pastor, D., 2023. "A general direct approach for decomposing profit inefficiency," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    7. Kassoum Ayouba & Jean-Philippe Boussemart & Raluca Parvulescu, 2023. "Measuring CO2 emission reduction potential using a cost approach," Working Papers 2023-EQM-02, IESEG School of Management.
    8. Yu, Ming-Miin, 2020. "Nerlovian profit inefficiency in non-fully-competitive settings: Definition and decomposition," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
    9. Hampf, Benjamin, 2018. "Cost and environmental efficiency of U.S. electricity generation: Accounting for heterogeneous inputs and transportation costs," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 163(C), pages 932-941.
    10. Diego Prior & Emili Tortosa-Ausina & María Pilar García-Alcober & Manuel Illueca, 2019. "Profit efficiency and earnings quality: Evidence from the Spanish banking industry," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 51(2), pages 153-174, June.
    11. Thanassoulis, E. & Sotiros, D. & Koronakos, G. & Despotis, D., 2018. "Assessing the cost-effectiveness of university academic recruitment and promotion policies," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 264(2), pages 742-755.
    12. Piran, Fabio Sartori & Lacerda, Daniel Pacheco & Camanho, Ana S. & Silva, Maria C.A., 2021. "Internal benchmarking to assess the cost efficiency of a broiler production system combining data envelopment analysis and throughput accounting," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 238(C).
    13. Silva Portela, Maria Conceição A., 2014. "Value and quantity data in economic and technical efficiency measurement," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 124(1), pages 108-112.
    14. Rolf Färe & Giannis Karagiannis, 2022. "Aggregation and decomposition of Farrell efficiencies," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 22(5), pages 5675-5683, November.
    15. Karagiannis, Giannis, 2023. "Decomposition and aggregation of tone efficiencies," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    16. Jean-Philippe Boussemart & Hervé Leleu & Raluca Parvulescu, 2021. "Value efficiency and its decomposition into direct price and quantity effects," Working Papers 2021-EQM-02, IESEG School of Management.
    17. Thanassoulis, Emmanuel & Shiraz, Rashed Khanjani & Maniadakis, Nikolaos, 2015. "A cost Malmquist productivity index capturing group performance," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 241(3), pages 796-805.
    18. Liao, Hua & Du, Yun-Fei & Huang, Zhimin & Wei, Yi-Ming, 2016. "Measuring energy economic efficiency: A mathematical programming approach," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 179(C), pages 479-487.
    19. Fukuyama, Hirofumi & Matousek, Roman & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2020. "A Nerlovian cost inefficiency two-stage DEA model for modeling banks’ production process: Evidence from the Turkish banking system," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
    20. Georgiou, Andreas C. & Thanassoulis, Emmanuel & Papadopoulou, Alexandra, 2022. "Using data envelopment analysis in markovian decision making," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 298(1), pages 276-292.

  7. Thanassoulis, Emmanuel & Silva Portela, Maria C.A. & Graveney, Mike, 2014. "Using DEA to estimate potential savings at GP units at medical specialty level," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 48(1), pages 38-48.

    Cited by:

    1. Abolghasem, Sepideh & Gómez-Sarmiento, Juliana & Medaglia, Andrés L. & Sarmiento, Olga L. & González, Andrés D. & Díaz del Castillo, Adriana & Rozo-Casas, Juan F. & Jacoby, Enrique, 2018. "A DEA-centric decision support system for evaluating Ciclovía-Recreativa programs in the Americas," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 90-101.
    2. Karagiannis, Giannis, 2023. "Decomposition and aggregation of tone efficiencies," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).

  8. Silva Portela, Maria Conceição A., 2014. "Value and quantity data in economic and technical efficiency measurement," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 124(1), pages 108-112.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  9. M. Portela & A. Camanho & A. Keshvari, 2013. "Assessing the evolution of school performance and value-added: trends over four years," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 39(1), pages 1-14, February.

    Cited by:

    1. Azar, Paola & Sicilia, Gabriela, 2023. "Assessing potential improvement in education: Unravelling pupils' and schools’ inefficiencies using a multi-level metafrontier approach," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 118(C).
    2. Kristof De Witte & Laura López-Torres, 2017. "Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 339-363, April.
    3. Paola Azar & Gabriela Sicilia, 2021. "An assessment of pupil and school performance in public primary education in Uruguay," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 21-22, Instituto de Economía - IECON.
    4. Aparicio, Juan & Crespo-Cebada, Eva & Pedraja-Chaparro, Francisco & Santín, Daniel, 2017. "Comparing school ownership performance using a pseudo-panel database: A Malmquist-type index approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 256(2), pages 533-542.
    5. Laura López-Torres & Diego Prior Jiménez, 2014. "Measuring School Demand in the Presence of Spatial Dependence. A Conditional Approach," Working Papers 1403, Departament Empresa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, revised Jun 2014.
    6. Alexander Arévalo S & Víctor Giménez G & Diego Prior J, 2022. "Análisis de eficiencia en educación: una aplicación del método StoNED," Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad, Universidad de los Andes,Facultad de Economía, CEDE, vol. 92(2), pages 45-91, October.
    7. Liu, Xiaohong & Yang, Jiangjiang & Xu, Chengzhen & Li, Xingchen & Zhu, Qingyuan, 2023. "Environmental regulation efficiency analysis by considering regional heterogeneity," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
    8. Aparicio, Juan & López-Torres, Laura & Santín, Daniel, 2018. "Economic crisis and public education. A productivity analysis using a Hicks-Moorsteen index," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 34-44.
    9. Arbona, Alexei & Giménez, Víctor & López-Estrada, Sebastián & Prior, Diego, 2022. "Efficiency and quality in Colombian education: An application of the metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).
    10. Aparicio, Juan & Ortiz, Lidia & Santín, Daniel, 2021. "Comparing group performance over time through the Luenberger productivity indicator: An application to school ownership in European countries," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 294(2), pages 651-672.
    11. Blackburn, Vincent & Brennan, Shae & Ruggiero, John, 2014. "Measuring efficiency in Australian Schools: A preliminary analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 48(1), pages 4-9.
    12. Tommaso Agasisti, 2014. "How does schools’ efficiency look like across Europe? An empirical analysis of Germany, Spain, France, Italy and UK using OECD PISA2012 data," Working papers 9, Società Italiana di Economia Pubblica.

  10. Thanassoulis, Emmanuel & Silva Portela, Maria C.A. & Graveney, Mike, 2012. "Estimating the scope for savings in referrals and drug prescription costs in the general Practice units of a UK primary care trust," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 221(2), pages 432-444.

    Cited by:

    1. Viera Mendelová, 2021. "Decomposition of cost efficiency with adjustable prices: an application of data envelopment analysis," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 21(4), pages 2739-2770, December.
    2. Thanassoulis, Emmanuel & Silva Portela, Maria C.A. & Graveney, Mike, 2014. "Using DEA to estimate potential savings at GP units at medical specialty level," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 48(1), pages 38-48.
    3. Portela, Maria Conceição A. Silva & Thanassoulis, Emmanuel, 2014. "Economic efficiency when prices are not fixed: disentangling quantity and price efficiency," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 47(C), pages 36-44.
    4. Karagiannis, Giannis, 2023. "Decomposition and aggregation of tone efficiencies," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    5. M. C. Gouveia & L. C. Dias & C. H. Antunes & M. A. Mota & E. M. Duarte & E. M. Tenreiro, 2016. "An application of value-based DEA to identify the best practices in primary health care," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 38(3), pages 743-767, July.

  11. M C S Portela & A S Camanho & D Borges, 2012. "Performance assessment of secondary schools: the snapshot of a country taken by DEA," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 63(8), pages 1098-1115, August.

    Cited by:

    1. Silva, Maria Conceição A., 2018. "Output-specific inputs in DEA: An application to courts of justice in Portugal," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 43-53.
    2. Kao, Chiang & Liu, Shiang-Tai, 2014. "Measuring performance improvement of Taiwanese commercial banks under uncertainty," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 235(3), pages 755-764.
    3. Kristof De Witte & Laura López-Torres, 2017. "Efficiency in education: a review of literature and a way forward," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 339-363, April.
    4. Victor V. Podinovski & Wan Rohaida Wan Husain, 2017. "The hybrid returns-to-scale model and its extension by production trade-offs: an application to the efficiency assessment of public universities in Malaysia," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 250(1), pages 65-84, March.
    5. Fabiana Rocha & Plinio Portela de Oliveira & Janete Duarte & Sérgio Ricardo de Brito Gadelha & Luis Felipe Vital Nunes Pereira, 2017. "Can Education Targets be Met Without Increasing Public Spending? An Analysis for Brazilian Municipalities," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 37(1), pages 391-401.
    6. Johnes, Jill, 2015. "Operational Research in education," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 243(3), pages 683-696.
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