Stochastic Coefficients Frontier Approach
A stochastic frontier approach to measuring regional technical efficiency in China
... the coefficients on transportation density variables (HIGHWAY and RAILWAY) are found to be positive in this empirical work, suggesting that highway and railway infrastructure are unproductive at the level of ...
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Estimation of Resource Use Efficiency and Technical Efficiency of Small Onion Farmers in Tamil Nadu: A Cobb-Douglas and Stochastic Frontier Approach
... the frontier output were due to technical inefficiency (the variation in onion output was due to farmers’ practices rather than random ...The coefficients (production elasticity) of inputs like planting ...
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Productivity and Resource Use Efficiency in Wheat: A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach
... The coefficients of landholding size and family size were estimated to be -0.080 and -0.014, which indicated that these factors had positive impact on technical efficiency of the wheat growers of the state. ...
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EFFICIENCY OF VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN ALBANIA: A STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH
... In (Jondrow, et al., 1982), are laid foundations of Stochastic Frontier Analysis. In the classical production econometric model the error term was considered as monolithic, as far as all individuals were ...
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Technical Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions in India A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... estimators. Signs of the estimated parameters of the Cobb Douglas frontier production function are as expected. Estimated coefficient of both input variables, PRSNL and CPB are positive and significant at 5% level ...
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Production frontiers and efficiency measures : concepts and applications
... statistical approach to m easuring production ...e stochastic frontier production function in the statistical approach assumes th a t th e effects of technical inefficiency on input prod u ...
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Analysis Of Technical Efficiency And Its Determinants Among Sheep Fattening Enterprises In Kebbi State, Nigeria
... the stochastic frontier, f(Xi; β) exp (Vi – ...the frontier and V<0 for one whose output is below the frontier as N~(0, δ 2 U), ...the stochastic production frontier model can ...
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A Monte Carlo Analysis for Stochastic Distance Function Frontier
... parametric stochastic frontier method can not deal with multiple outputs and multiple inputs easily and ...Although stochastic cost frontier and stochastic revenue frontier can ...
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Productivity of the hired and family labour and determinants of technical inefficiency in Ghana’s fish farms
... of frontier production function, majority of these studies implicitly assume equal productivity and aggregate hired and fam- ily labour to determine their effect on ...the frontier model, their study is ...
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Regional Tourism Competition in the Baltic States: a Spatial Stochastic Frontier Approach
... 3) approach for defining regions in Estonia and Lithuania (15 and 10 regions respectively), but not for ...the approach of the national statistical office of Latvia for regions’ ...a frontier model) ...
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Productivity change in microfinance institutions in SAARC region: A Malmquist productivity index approach
... (Farrington, 2000) Identify different accounting variables which reveal efficiency of microfinance institutions. These variables includes, number of loans per loan officer, administrative expense ratio and loan officers ...
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Technical Efficiency in Organic Farming: an Application on Italian Cereal Farms using a Parametric Approach
... a stochastic frontier production (SFP) approach, the analysis – focused on a sample of 231 Italian farms - found that organic practices are, on average, significantly less efficient than traditional ...
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Dynamics of innovation and efficiency in banking system: An application of SFA and meta frontier method
... applying frontier analysis: “changes in the technology gap show the relative improvements in technology sets, which in turn are affected by innovations ” ...employ Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) ...
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Technical efficiency in the sheep dairy industry: an application on the Sardinian (Italy) sector
... The panel data covered a six-year period from 2004 to 2009 for a total of 216 obser- vations. Information came from the Official Register of Accounts, specifically from the income statement, that firms have to submit to ...
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The Determinants of Profit Efficiency of Islamic Banks Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis Approach
... In this article, we estimate the determinants of the profit efficiency of Islamic banks using the stochastic frontier analysis stochastic frontier approach. We use 37 Islamic banks in ...
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Determinants of foreign-owned banks efficiency in New Zealand: a stochastic frontier approach
... parametric stochastic frontier approach (SFA) is employed to extend the existing bank efficiency studies that used the non- parametric approach--Data Envelopment Analysis ...SFA ...
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Specification Testing of Production Frontier Function in Stochastic Frontier Model
... bootstrap approach to calculate the p- values for the test ...proposed approach is that our proposed test statistics can efficiently detect the alternative hypothesis even under ...production ...
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Technical efficiency and corporate structure of Italian private hospitals: evidence from one step Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... one-step Stochastic Frontier Analysis technique, we explain technical efficiency throughout a set of variables capturing the firm’s shareholder activity, ownership concentration, and managerial ...
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A stochastic frontier estimator of the aggregate degree of market power exerted by the U S beef and pork packing industries
... The objective of this paper was to measure the aggregate degree of market power in the U.S. beef– and pork– packing industries with the use of the recently devel- oped stochastic frontier estimator of ...
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Essays on banking
... Essays on Banking Table of Contents 11 Introduction Chapter One - Economies of Scale and Scope and Productive Efficiency in Portuguese Banking: A Stochastic Cost Frontier Approach 1.1.. [r] ...
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