Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA)
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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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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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
... This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract The concept of this study is to note whether financial risk assessment ...
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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
... The stochastic frontier analysis is widely used to estimate individual efficiency ...The stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) is based on the pioneering work of Aigner et ...
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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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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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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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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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Cost Efficiency of Italian Commercial Banks:A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... best-practice frontier, by comparison of performances of all units of the economic system; such methodology allows discrimination between the effect caused by stochastic disturbances or by technical ...
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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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Parametric farm performance and efficiency methodology: Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... Envelopment Analysis, DEA) have however severe shortcomings such as the sensi- tivity of the results to outliers and the potential bias in the results due to the exclusion of potentially more effi cient fi ...
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Measuring efficiency of governmental hospitals in Palestine using stochastic frontier analysis
... The second order coefficients and interaction terms coefficients in translog model are almost completely sta- tistically significant except interaction between beds and nurses, and interaction between beds and ...
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Determinants of efficiency in residential electricity demand: stochastic frontier analysis on Japan
... efficiency frontier is determined to include these observed values as a technically completely efficient sample, since a negative deviation from the frontier is not ...parametric frontier (SFA) ap- ...
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