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9. Fuad Selamzade: Measurement of the Efficiency of Azerbaijan Region Hotel
10. Organization: Window Analysis and Malmquist Index

As it can be seen from Figure 1, Baku has the closest scores to 1 in the windows

where it is not efficient, according to the results of the window analysis. When
examining the mean efficiency scores of the regions from the Figure, it is observed
that the Baku region has values close to the full efficiency score in seven windows,
and the efficiency scores decreased in the last three windows, that is, 2013-2018.
Although the increasing direction of the Absheron region's mean efficiency score
shows a trend up to the sixth window, it declined, after the seventh window. The
Ganja-Kazah, Sheki-Zakatala, Lankaran and Aran regions first had a decreasing
trend and then an increasing trend of efficiency. The mean efficiency scores of
Kuba-Khachmaz and mountainous Aran regions decreased in the last windows.

The efficiency scores for the regions according to the estimated years as a result of
the constant scale window analysis are presented in Table 2. Baku region was fully
efficient in 2006-2009, 2011-2013 ve 2018, Absheron region in 2012, Ganja-Gazakh
region in 2017, Sheki-Zakatala in 2016 and 2018, Lankaran in 2006-2009 and 2014,
Kuba-Khachmaz in 2011 and 2012, Aran region in 2006-2008 and Nakhchivan A.R.
in 2012-2018. Another point that attracts attention is that Mountainous Shirvan
region is not effective in any year.
It is also seen that in 2010 no region was efficient, the highest efficiency score was
99,8% (Sheki Zakatala) and the lowest efficiency score was 46,2% (Absheron).
From Table 2, it was found that mean efficiency of regions according to years was
below 80% in 2010, 2013-2016 and above 80% in 2006-2009, 2012, 2017 and 2018.

Efficiency score results obtained by output-oriented, variable-scale window analysis
are presented in Table 3. According to the results of the analysis, it was found that
Baku, Lenkeran, Aran and Mountainous Shirvan were fully efficient in the first
window, Baku in the second and sixth windows, Baku, Absheron and Nakhchivan
A.R. in the seventh window and regions of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic in the
eight, nine and tenth Windows.

It was found that no region obtained efficiency score in the third and fourth windows,
but in the third and fourth windows, Baku (99,1% in both windows) and in the fifth
window, Nakhchivan A.R. (99,3%) regions had the highest efficiency scores, and in
the third window, Absheron (65,1%), in the fourth window, Ganja-Gazakh (73,8%)
and in the fifth window, Aran (74%) had the lowest efficiency scores.

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