stochastic frontier analysis
Integrating spatial dependence into stochastic frontier analysis
... Integrating spatial dependence into stochastic frontier analysis. Areal, Francisco J and Balcombe, Kelvin and Tiffin, R[r] ...
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Productivity growth and convergence: a stochastic frontier analysis
... the Stochastic Frontier Analysis in which regional production can deviate from the maximum possible due to both technically inefficient production and random ...
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Bayesian Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using WinBUGS
... the analysis of complex statistical models using MCMC techniques, called WinBUGS, in the context of stochastic ...Bayesian stochastic frontier analysis, and only requires a relatively ...
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Improving the "usefulness" of stochastic frontier analysis for health care
... Keywords: frontier efficiency; stochastic frontier analysis; health care efficiency JEL Classification Codes: I12, D22, C51 1. Introduction In developed countries, health care expenditures as ...
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A Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Secondary Education Output in Portugal
... The Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) builds on the microeconomic concept of produc- tion function which represents the maximum output attainable given a certain quantity of ...
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Explaining Cost Efficiency of Scottish Farms: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... A Stochastic Frontier Analysis 1 Cesar ...the stochastic cost frontier, a generalised multi-product translog cost function was estimated for five farm types: dairy, cereals and general ...
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Measuring Efficiency of Indian Banks: A DEA-Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... efficient frontier methods of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to estimate efficiency of Indian commercial ...and stochastic production ...
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Model Selection in Stochastic Frontier Analysis: Maize Production in Kenya
... using stochastic frontier ...our analysis are related to education background of the household, rural infrastructure, land tenure, credit constraints faced by the ...
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Efficiency of Urban Bus Companies in India: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... The analysis is conducted using the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) of the pro- duction function model specified by Battese and Coelli [13] for panel ...a stochastic production fron- ...
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The Impact of Liberalization on the Production of Electricity in Japan: Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... using Stochastic Frontier Analysis ...and stochastic frontier models of the cost function are obtained and ...both frontier models and non-frontier models are ...
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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 ...
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The Efficiency of German Public Theaters: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis Approach
... a stochastic frontier analysis approach, we test whether the assump- tion of cost-minimizing behavior is reliable in this ...efficiency analysis based on a cost function approach seems ...
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The Efficiency of Indonesian Islamic Rural Banks: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... Research of efficiency by using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) had been conducted. Tahir,et al. (2008) investigated operational efficiency by SFA approach in 22 commercial banks consisting of ...
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Technical Efficiency of Manufacturing Enterprises in Libya: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... a stochastic frontier production function to analyse 5,204 observations of SMEs from three surveys conducted in 2002, 2005 and ...using Stochastic Frontier Analysis ...
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Stochastic frontier analysis by means of maximum likelihood and the method of moments
... Abstract The stochastic frontier analysis (Aigner et al., 1977, Meeusen and van de Broeck, 1977) is widely used to estimate individual efficiency scores. The basic idea lies in the introduc- tion of ...
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Integrating spatial dependence into stochastic frontier analysis
... the analysis the fact that production is partially constrained by the annual quota Q which includes the initial quota ± quota bought/sold, leasing in quota qui and leasing out quota ...
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A selection of relevant issues in applied stochastic frontier analysis
... 5. Conclusions In this short note we have revisited several issues that are important in order to properly model stochastic frontiers. The models reviewed in the present paper deal rigorously with both difficult ...
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Cost Efficiency of Italian Commercial Banks:A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... 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 firms, that do not conform their behaviour to ...
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Local or national environmental spending in Italy: a stochastic frontier analysis
... be stochastic in order to capture exogenous shocks beyond the control of ...same frontier output, an additional error term is introduced to represent technical inefficiency that, in turn, is in the control ...
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Determinants of Technical Efficiency in Oklahoma Schools: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... production functions are presented in Table 2. Output elasticities have been computed based on the mean values of ln (I$/S) and ln (O$/S) and are summarized in Table 3. The elasticities of test scores with respect to ...
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