Distance Function Based Approach
Land Quality and International Agricultural Productivity: A Distance Function Approach
... Mundlak, Larson, and Butzer (1999) used two proxies for land quality—potential dry matter and a factor of water deficit—and found both to h ave a significant impact on explaining cross- country differences in ...
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Measurement of dynamic efficiency, a directional distance function parametric approach
... efficiency based on Silva and Stefanou’s (2003) nonparametric dynamic dual cost approach to production ...input distance function developed by Chambers et ...
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Efficiency of Micro Finance Institutions in India: A Stochastic Distance Function Approach
... stochastic distance function approach to analyze MFIs which helps us to overcome the drawbacks of the much used SFA and DEA ...MFIs based on a large panel data from India which is the largest ...
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Efficiency in the Japanese trust banking industry: A stochastic distance function approach
... Thus, based on the trust banks’ twofold balance sheet pertaining to the trust and banking accounts, the trust banks are treated as firms that employ each account’s liabilities and labour to produce different types ...
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Provision of an environmental output within a multi-output distance function approach
... On the contrary to what happens to environmental payments under M1, set-aside payments are negatively correlated with ine ciency. A total of 67 farms in the sample received set-aside payments during the period studied. ...
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Benchmarking road traffic safety across OECD countries: a distance function approach
... care are also often better in areas of highly traffic density (for example, cities), and may lead to reductions in traffic fatalities. Since the parameters of environmental variables in Table 3 are difficult to interpret ...
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Financial development and productive inefficiency: a robust conditional directional distance function approach
... 1965-2005. Based on the theoretical framework of Badunenko and Romero-Ávila (2013), and the hypothesis that financial development drives growth, our study for the first time applies time-dependent conditional ...
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The effects of governance changes on bank efficiency in China: A stochastic distance function approach
... This paper has also contributed to the literature with methodological concerns. It has found that an income-based model is superior to an assets-earning model, especially when assets quality is poor. It has ...
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Regional economic growth and environmental efficiency in greenhouse emissions: A conditional directional distance function approach
... Based on several other studies similar to ours (Färe et al, 1989; 1996; 2004; Färe and Grosskopf 2003; 2004; Chung et al, 1997; Tyteca, 1996; 1997; Taskin and Zaim, 2001; Zofio and Prieto, 2001; Zaim, 2004; Picazo ...
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Assessing the relative performance of university technology transfer in the US and UK: a stochastic distance function approach
... Still, based on the evidence presented, we must conclude that there is no evidence to support the assertion that large universities have systematic advantages, relative to smaller ...
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Efficiency of the Malaysian Hotel Industry: A Distance Function Approach
... ‡Centre of National r esearch on Disability and r ehabilitation medicine (CONr OD), University of Queensland, h erston Ql D, Australia This article introduces the distance function approach with both ...
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Measuring regional environmental efficiency: A directional distance function approach
... 1. Introduction The measurement of environmental technology has been an open challenge for researchers. The problem lies on the treatment of the pollutant 1 in production function framework. One of the ways that ...
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The efficiency and productivity of Malaysian banks:an output distance function approach
... The average efficiency scores obtained in previous bank efficiency studies that have employed an output-oriented distance function (e.g. English, Grosskopf, Hayes, and Yaisawarng 1993; Adams, Berger, and ...
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Then the distance function f
... Morse theory for distance functions First we recall the notion of a critical point of the distance function d p in the angle sense see §1 and [9], [6].. For any critical point q of d p w[r] ...
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Provision of an environmental output within a multi output distance function approach
... Provision of an environmental output within a multi-output distance function approach. Areal, Francisco J and Tiffin, Richard and Balcombe, Kelvin[r] ...
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Policy Reform and Productivity Change in Chinese Agriculture: A Distance Function Approach
... the distance elasticities of the outputs reflects the changes in the output composition, with the remarkable exception of the output from animal ...the distance elasticity indicates that the technological ...
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A Corpus-based Approach to Linguistic Function
... Efforts have been made to circumvent the dif- ficulties in manual annotation by attempting to convert the Penn Treebank to an SFL corpus (Honnibal and Curran, 2007). The project has been partially successful in aligning ...
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Parallel Method of Signed Distance Function Based on Normal Radiation
... The distance function calculation method proposed in this paper has the following steps: (1) Calculate the normal direction of the point S on the closed curve, and then extend the distance along the ...
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A Skin Detection Approach Based on Color Distance Map
... reliable approach to detect skin regions that can be used in various human-related image processing ...color distance map, which itself is a grayscale image making the process simple, but still containing ...
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A Novel Approach For Biometric Based Encryption By Using Distance Based Encryption
... The primary application of this new encryption notion is to incorporate biometric identities, such as face, as the public identity in an identity-based encryption. In such an application, usually the input ...
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