… efficiency measurement (eg, Murillo-Zamorano 2004). However, we defend in this article the
use of non-parametric efficiency … , Spanish universities have undergone profound changes …

… , there has been a decline in efficiency in Sweden and Italy. … development of efficiency
within the non-parametric approach… of a change in technical efficiency and a change within the …

… adopting parametric and non-parametric methodologies. The … universities have not shown
important changes in efficiency … for higher education in Italy depend on performance indices, …

… knowledge transfer – that is, the Higher Education Institutions (… , the parametric and non-parametric
approaches. Section 3 … efficiency in a cross-country perspective: the case of Italian …

… This research focuses on Italian innovative firms using a large sample of companies. … a
non-parametric frontier estimation technique, we evaluate innovative start-ups’ performance more …

… Our results suggest that without changing government … over time the efficiency frontier
improved more in Italy than in … For our empirical analysis, we use DEA, a non-parametric method, …

… a remarkable variation around the mean (standard deviation = 0.797). Regional average …
class of non-parametric frontier estimators, namely a generalised conditional efficiency model - …

… If the gains from change are not too large, it may not make sense to politicians and decision-…
DEA is a non-parametric method used to estimate the efficiency of a set of homogeneous …

… Italian HEIs was due to technological changes whereas the … The findings showed that Italian
universities are more efficient … ), this paper uses a non-parametric meta-frontier technique (O’…

… on the IT-efficiency paradigm. Section 3 contains a comprehensive discussion of SFA
and DEA as parametric and non-parametric measures of measuring efficiency. … and non-parametric …