Stochastic cost frontier
Cost efficiency of small-scale commercial broiler production in Zambia: A stochastic cost frontier approach
... the stochastic frontier Cobb-Douglas cost function, cost inefficiency model and variance diagnostics are presented in Table ...the cost of broiler production could be attributed to the ...
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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 directly (Zhang et ...Although stochastic cost frontier and stochastic ...
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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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Stochastic frontier models
... higher cost of produc- tion. Estimating the cost associated with technical inefficiency is often of important policy values, and it can be done using a stochastic cost frontier model in ...
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Cost Efficiency of Italian Commercial Banks:A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... a stochastic cost frontier, which allows us to determine both a measure of technical efficiency and a ranking of productive units (based on the distance from the production contour), by comparing ...
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Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Tomato Production in Adamawa State, Nigeria
... the stochastic frontier production function and inefficiency model results are presented in Table 1 and ...the stochastic frontier production function indicates that the elasticity of output ...
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Improving the "usefulness" of stochastic frontier analysis for health care
... so, stochastic frontiers can be estimated using either random parameters or latent class ...class stochastic frontier to endogenously identify different segments in their sample of ...
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STOCHASTIC FRONTIER PRODUCTION ANALYSIS OF TOBACCO GROWERS IN DISTRICT MARDAN, PAKISTAN
... the stochastic frontier production of tobacco ...of stochastic production frontier analysis indicate that all variables were statistically significant and have portrayed positive contribution ...
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Technical efficiency of rice producing households in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam
... The DEA is a mathematical programming technique used to identify efficient frontiers for the peer decision making units (DMUs). In addition, it is a collection of non-parametric methods to measure the production ...
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ESTIMATION OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCIES OF INDIAN MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS USING STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS
... Finance; Cost Accounting; Econometrics; Economic Development; Economic History; Financial Institutions & Markets; Financial Services; Fiscal Policy; Government & Non Profit Accounting; Industrial ...
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A Poisson Stochastic Frontier Model with Finite Mixture Structure
... data stochastic frontier ...data stochastic frontier model that overcomes the restrictions of the past studies is introduced by Fè-Rodríguez and Hofler ...
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Applications of the stochastic frontier approach in Energy Economics
... of stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) in Energy Economics: i) the estimation of productive or cost efficiency of electricity and gas distribution networks, and ii) the estimation of energy demand ...
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Using a One Health approach to assess the impact of parasitic disease in livestock: how does it add value?
... At a farm-‐level, the costs incurred by a specific pathogen are a function of: (i) disease frequency, namely incidence and prevalence; (ii) infection intensity, such as the number of parasites present within an ...
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EFFICIENCY OF VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN ALBANIA: A STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH
... To evaluate efficiency of 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 whole. We don't have such ...
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A selection of relevant issues in applied stochastic frontier analysis
... Fisheries provides a good example of a sector where management (skipper skill is the common term in this literature) is assumed to be an important factor in order to explain differences in catches across vessels. This is ...
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Dynamics of innovation and efficiency in banking system: An application of SFA and meta frontier method
... and cost efficiency scores for the whole period, the correlation coefficient between these two average measurements estimates about ...actual cost to the new cost frontier function and make ...
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Production frontiers and efficiency measures : concepts and applications
... e stochastic frontier production function in the statistical approach assumes th a t th e effects of technical inefficiency on input prod u ctiv ity (or elasticity) are th e sam e for each input w ith the ...
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Measuring productivity and efficiency: a Kalman filter approach
... losses for domestic passenger airline operations were more than three times the losses between 1979-1999. Some of the exogenous cost shocks during the sample period were due to increased taxes and jet fuel prices. ...
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The Measurement Of Efficiency Where There Are Multiple Outputs
... This paper is motivated by the empirical observation that in many studies the elasticity of output with respect to labour is often negative and/or insignificant. The present study applies multiple output models to ...
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Efficiency of financial micro intermediation in the WAEMU countries: A stochastic frontier production analysis
... weak cost of industrial projects in public sector, the banks cannot practice an crowding out of the high-risk customers by raising the supply price of credit”[translation], p ...
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