Frontier analysis and X-efficiency measurement
An alternative probabilistic frontier analysis to the measurement of eco efficiency
... conditional frontier model to estimate and evaluate the convergence in eco-efficiency of a group of 51 US states over the period ...NO x ) to capture the environmental damage caused by the ...
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Efficiency Measurement in Greek Dairy Farms: Stochastic Frontier vs. Data Envelopment Analysis
... The main advantage of non-parametric DEA is that it does not require specification of the functional form of the production function. Furthermore, DEA simultaneously utilizes multiple outputs and multiple inputs with ...
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Partial frontier efficiency analysis for Stata
... efficiency analysis, namely data envelopment analysis (DEA) and free disposal hull (FDH), have bad reputations among ...and measurement errors. However, recently, so-called partial frontier ...
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A Monte Carlo Study of Old and New Frontier Methods for Efficiency Measurement
... Moreover, order-m performs better than the theoretically more robust order-α approach. This conclusion is, however, somewhat tentative. Maybe dierently designed Monte Carlo experiments with less well behaved ...
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A review of frontier approaches to efficiency and productivity measurement in urban water utilities
... of analysis possible, and therefore the content of managerial and policy prescriptions, using this particular ...noise, measurement error, and exogenous shocks beyond the control of the water ...efficient ...
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Stochastic frontier approach and data envelopment analysis to total factor productivity and efficiency measurement of Bangladeshi rice
... Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), which is parametric, and b) Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is nonparamet- ...The efficiency is measured relative to the highest observed performance ...
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FEAR: A Software Package for Frontier Efficiency Analysis with R
... overall efficiency while assuming either variable, non-increasing, or constant returns to ...allowing measurement of efficiency of one group of observations relative to a technology defined by a ...
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PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT USING THE FRONTIER EFFICIENCY METHODOLOGY: A STUDY OF INDIAN GENERAL INSURANCE SECTOR
... Technical Efficiency, Pure Technical Efficiency and Scale Efficiency by applying ...The analysis has been done by developing a model which involves Claims incurred as the output and Investment ...
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The Efficiency of Indonesian Islamic Rural Banks: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... 𝑈 𝑖𝑡 is the variable indicated the model inefficiency. Initial step to estimate efficiency is by determining functional form for production function. The research implements the form of Cobb Douglas production ...
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The measurement and analysis of regional energy efficiency in China
... Energy Efficiency; Stochastic Frontier Analysis _____________________________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION The steady economic growth of China requires ...
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Efficiency and Technology Gap in China's Agriculture: A Regional META-Frontier Analysis
... Several other variables such as teacher-student-ratio as a proxy for education stock and available credit per capita were not significantly related to either of the indexes. Empirically, Tobit models were adopted ...
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Efficiency Measurement Using a Latent Class Stochastic Frontier Model
... the efficiency point of view. Since estimated efficiency is likely to be biased if differences in the cost frontier and/or the same error structures are not controlled, one would expect the ...
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Efficiency Measurement in the Local Public Sector: Econometric and Mathematical Programming Frontier Techniques
... difficulty in establishing cause and effect between the activities of a service and the final outcomes it seeks to influence, and these may be evident only after considerable time (SCRCSSP, 1998: 7). Second, government ...
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FEAR: A Software Package for Frontier Efficiency Analysis with R
... To varying degrees, the existing packages perform well the tasks they were designed for. Each includes facilities for reading data into the program, in some cases in a variety of formats, and procedures for estimating ...
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Efficiency of Scottish Farms: A Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis
... investigate efficiency using similar explanatory vari- ables, but producing different results regarding farm ...construct efficiency indicators for Scottish agriculture by farm type using a stochastic cost ...
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Explaining Cost Efficiency of Scottish Farms: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... cost efficiency produced for each farm type indicate wide variation in the cost efficiency levels achieved within and between farm type ...cost efficiency of its constituent ...cost efficiency ...
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Measuring Efficiency of Indian Banks: A DEA-Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... The analysis provides the precise corrective figure for every output and input in order to improve their efficiency of an inefficient ...production frontier (Table ...envelopment analysis and ...
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Cost Efficiency of Italian Commercial Banks:A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... productivity efficiency of banking ...efficient frontier could moreover be brought about not only from managerial deficiency in choosing the input mix, but also from unsuitable comparison of non homogenous ...
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Efficiency of Urban Bus Companies in India: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... average efficiency score was ...average efficiency score was only ...technical efficiency of bus transport operators can be explained by fleet utilization (which heavily depends on investment in new ...
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Shipping Firms’ Efficiency Evaluation through Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... Keywords Financial Risk, Assessment Tools, Stochastic Frontier Analysis, Shipping Industry 1. Introduction Since the credit crunch of the last quinquennium, firms across the shipping industry have been ...
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