Non-Parametric Frontier Approaches
Estimation of Cost Efficiency in Non-parametric Frontier Models
... in Non-parametric Frontier ...the frontier, and then re-estimates cost efficiency scores for the rescaled ...the frontier is smooth; and 3) the probability of observing firms on the ...
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Forecasting Bank Failure: A Non-Parametric Frontier Estimation Approach
... This paper describes a new approach for quantifying a bank’s managerial efficiency, using a data-envelopment- analysis model that combines multiple inputs and outputs to compute a scalar measure of efficiency. This new ...
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The Use of Parametric and Non Parametric Frontier Methods to Measure the Productive Efficiency in the Industrial Sector. A Comparative Study
... Parametric frontier models and non-parametric methods have monopolised the recent literature on productive efficiency ...of approaches to an industrial organisation ...
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Efficiency analysis of public higher education institutions in Turkey with parametric and non-parametric approaches
... Panel data analysis on 121 British universities for three full academic years conducted by Johnes & Johnes (2009) is another substantial study worth examining and emphasising in this section. In that paper, ...
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Measuring the technical efficiency of Thai manufacturing SMEs: A comparison of parametric and non-parametric approaches
... Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) or Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approaches ( ; Herrero & Pascoe 2002; Coelli et ...a parametric approach where the form of the production function is assumed ...
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Total factor productivity growth in European stock exchanges: A non-parametric frontier approach
... There is only little research available that addresses international comparisons of financial exchanges themselves. In contrast to classical financial market studies, Domowitz and Steil (1999) emphasize important effects ...
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Non-parametric Approaches to Education and Health Expenditure Efficiency in OECD Countries
... Abstract We address the efficiency of expenditure in education and health sectors for a sample of OECD countries by applying two alternative non-parametric methodologies: FDH and DEA. Those are two areas ...
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Comparison of the technical efficiency of the hospital sector: Panel data analysis of the Iranian hospitals using parametric and non-parametric approaches
... hospitals having gained score equaling one denote the optimal application of inputs to produce outputs. These decision-making units serve as benchmarks for inefficient peers. In this study, 5 out of 8 hospitals were in ...
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International comparisons of the technical efficiency of the hospital sector: Panel data analysis of OECD countries using parametric and non-parametric approaches
... SFA a b s t r a c t There is a growing interest in the cross-country comparisons of the performance of national health care systems. The present work provides a comparison of the technical efficiency of the hospital ...
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Parametric farm performance and efficiency methodology: Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... using parametric or non-parametric ...the non-parametric methods is that they do not account for random ...the parametric approaches, the Sto- chastic Frontier ...
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Parametric and non-parametric approaches for runoff and rainfall regionalization
... 61 3.6. Conclusion The procedure is applied to 124 basins in Northern Italy and Switzerland. The basins used in our analysis present different hydrological behavior and cover a wide range of descriptors (area, elevation ...
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Selecting the W Matrix: Parametric vs Non Parametric Approaches
... Other proposals to construct weight matrices based on non-geographical criteria can be consulted in Autant-Bernard and LeSage (2011), Basile et al. (2012), Frenken et al. (2010), Maggioni et al. (2007), Mora and ...
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Selecting the W Matrix: Parametric vs. Non Parametric Approaches
... SARAR model of (6) remains still unsolved. Model selection techniques may also have a role in this problem, specially if we have any preference for any weighting matrix. In other words, we are not considering the idea of ...
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Parametric and Non-parametric Approaches to Exits from Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes
... Classification (and regression) tree algorithms can be evaluated by their accuracy, speed and interpretability. Predictive accuracy on unseen data constitutes the main reference point in comparing the solutions of ...
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The Verdoorn Law: Some Evidence from Non parametric Frontier Analysis
... principle non-parametric frontier analysis can deal with variables both in levels and rates of growth, in our opinion the treatment of the latter requires a more complex analysis and shall be taken ...
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Asymptotics and Consistent Bootstraps for DEA Estimators in Non-parametric Frontier Models
... true frontier, conditional on observed data resulting from an underlying data-generating process ...DEA frontier estimator is a consistent, maximum likelihood estima- tor (Banker, 1993), with a known rate ...
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Estimation of the volatility function: Non parametric and semiparametric approaches
... 4.1 E x isten ce o f a partially linear regression m odel The estim ation of th e variance function has been so far th e focus of discussion. Note th a t th e n on param etric m odel investigated in earlier sections ...
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Early Warning System for Systemic Banking Crisis in India: Parametric and Non-parametric approaches
... and non-quantifiable factors affecting health of the banking system from the ...other approaches like Markov Switching Model and Classification and Regression Trees (DuttaGupta & Cashin , 2008) can be ...
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Evaluating italian university teaching efficiency convergence: a non-parametric frontier approach
... the non-parametric frontier method developed by Charnes et ...a frontier envelopment surface for all DMUs by using linear programming ...
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Evaluating italian university teaching efficiency convergence: a non parametric frontier approach
... the non-parametric frontier method developed by Charnes et ...a frontier envelopment surface for all DMUs by using linear programming ...
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