How efficient is the Italian hospitality sector? A window DEA and truncated-Tobit analysis

Juan Brida, Claudio Detotto and Manuela Pulina

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Abstract: This paper analyses the Italian regional efficiency of the hospitality sector using a data envelopment analysis (DEA), for the time span 2000-2004. Via a window DEA, pure technical efficiency is computed. The Lombardy region presents the best relative performance. Overall Italian regions denote important sources of inefficiency mostly related to their inputs. Via a truncated-Tobit analysis, the rate of utilisation and regional intrinsic features positively are found to affect hospitality efficiency. Nevertheless, empirical evidence does not support spill-over effects amongst Italian regions.

Keywords: regional hospitality sector; window dea; double bootstrap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C24 L83 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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