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Stationary Points for Parametric Stochastic Frontier Models
... Introduction Parametric Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) allows for production function estimation while accounting for inefficiency in a cross-section of ...the production ...
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Specification Testing of Production Frontier Function in Stochastic Frontier Model
... the parametric specification is attractive for the production frontier function because it is easy to compute and the economic interpretation of the pro- duction process can fit into the ...
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Parametric farm performance and efficiency methodology: Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... intensive production system. This, along with the large production elasticity of labour ...farm production and effi ciency was also investigated in the ...and production, con- trary to what ...
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EFFICIENCY OF VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN ALBANIA: A STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH
... vegetable production, we can use farm-level data for each of 12 regions of Albania and later by pooling regional results we can have an assessment for the country as a ...vegetable production we use ...
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Endogeneity corrected stochastic production frontier and technical efficiency
... The moment condition represents the distance between the observed moments and zero. The two moment conditions (10) and (11) state that the residual term ξ it + v it ( ) β * is mean independent of k and it e it − 1 . In ...
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A note on the estimation of stochastic and deterministic production frontiers with maximum entropy
... ABSTRACT Stochastic frontier analysis with maximum entropy estimation has received considerable attention in the literature in the recent ...of stochastic and deterministic production ...
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Labour-use Efficiency in the Italian Machinery Industry: a Non-parametric Stochastic Frontier Perspective
... The model proposed in this paper aims overcome the main drawbacks associated with the preliminary specification of a particular form for the production function: the higher degree of flexibility in the new ...
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Labour use Efficiency in the Italian Machinery Industry: a Non parametric Stochastic Frontier Perspective
... The model proposed in this paper aims overcome the main drawbacks associated with the preliminary specification of a particular form for the production function: the higher degree of flexibility in the new ...
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A stochastic parametric analysis of efficiency of millet and sorghum production in Niger
... The stochastic frontier model proposed in the previous section provides the empirical framework to analyze the efficiency of the ...of production; such as the infrastructure and the quality of ...
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Stochastic frontier models
... the deterministic part of the frontier function is linear): ln y it = α + x ′ it β + v it − u i , u i ≥ 0, (5) where α is a ...panel estimators which yield consistent esti- mates of α i for a large T ...
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STOCHASTIC FRONTIER MODELS
... The parametric or statistical approach imposes a specification on the production function which of course can be overly ...the production frontier and technical efficiency depends, in part, on ...
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STOCHASTIC FRONTIER PRODUCTION ANALYSIS OF TOBACCO GROWERS IN DISTRICT MARDAN, PAKISTAN
... the stochastic frontier production of tobacco ...This parametric approach was encompassed to investigate the technical efficiency of ...of stochastic production frontier ...
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Stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data : semi-parametric frontier estimation subject to shape constraints
... The production technology is repre- sented by the frontier production function f : < m þ ! < þ that indicates the maximum output that can be produced with the given ...the production function ...
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Technical Efficiency in Production and Resource Use in Sugar Cane: A Stochastic Frontier Production Function Analysis
... into deterministic and stochastic methods. Deterministic methods date back to Farell’s (1957) seminal work, where he introduced the idea of parametric methods using the Cobb-Douglas ...
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Efficiency of financial micro intermediation in the WAEMU countries: A stochastic frontier production analysis
... different estimators of maximum likelihood of both stochastic frontier production function and technical inefficiency are displayed in table ...both stochastic frontier and ...
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A comparison between maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimation of stochastic frontier production models
... the parametric space is considered, and the main interest is the analysis of the influence of the choice of various hyperparameters in the prior distribution of ...
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Stochastic FDH/DEA estimators for Frontier Analysis
... The frontier function has been scaled so that 0 ≤ Y i ≤ 1 when 0 ≤ X i ≤ ...the frontier function and the stochastic part of the ...the frontier function does not provide a free disposal ...
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Asymptotics and Consistent Bootstraps for DEA Estimators in Non-parametric Frontier Models
... DEA estimators measure efficiency relative to an estimate of an unobserved true frontier, conditional on observed data resulting from an underlying data-generating process ...DEA estimators have been ...
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Stochastic and deterministic models for agricultural production networks
... the stochastic network model originates from the random move- ment of discrete individuals from node to ...the stochastic transportation model to describe a real-world situation should, therefore, account ...
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Model Selection in Stochastic Frontier Analysis: Maize Production in Kenya
... the frontier production ...the production frontier and inefficiency level (Sherlund et ...maize production in Kenya, because all of the maize fields are rain-fed fields, and drought is ...
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