Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) results
Productivity growth and convergence: a stochastic frontier analysis
... The application of this methodology leads to new findings on regional efficiency growth in Spain and has direct consequences in informing policies designed to enhance regional development. Unlike the approach typically ...
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Improving the "usefulness" of stochastic frontier analysis for health care
... the results produced by SFA and its main competitor, DEA; to the sensitivity of results to different formulations of the SFA model, including functional form, distributional assumptions, the choice of ...
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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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Measuring Efficiency of Indian Banks: A DEA-Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... The analysis provides the precise corrective figure for every output and input in order to improve their efficiency of an inefficient ...production frontier (Table ...that results produced by both ...
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Shipping Firms’ Efficiency Evaluation through Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... Note: Table 7 reports the descriptive statistics of key risk assessment tools for the period 2000-2014. Standard deviations have been put in parenthes- es. 4. Conclusions In this study, we evaluate operating and market ...
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Parametric farm performance and efficiency methodology: Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... Munroe’s results for Poland and found that for both crop and livestock farms the size-effi ciency relationship is posi- tive, meaning large farms are more effi ...
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The Efficiency of Indonesian Islamic Rural Banks: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) had been ...panel stochastic frontier approach in the post crises ...Their results suggested that there is cost efficiency gain and ...
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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 ...The results showed that manufacturing SMEs in Vietnam have relatively ...
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Measuring efficiency of governmental hospitals in Palestine using stochastic frontier analysis
... The results of the SFA analysis shows that the number of doctors has a significant effect on the production both partially or in the form of quadratic and ...
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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 results are presented in Table 2 and Figure ...
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Integrating spatial dependence into stochastic frontier analysis
... e ciency. Results for the conditional posterior of the spatial dependence parameter ρ are sensitive to the speci cation of the spatial weight ...Thus results from the connectivity matrix raise the question ...
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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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A selection of relevant issues in applied stochastic frontier analysis
... production frontier accounts for both inefficiency and technical ...several stochastic frontier models to correctly identify these two ...Their results show that when both technical change and ...
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Numerical Tools for the Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Frontier Models
... The issue of whether to use one long run from the Gibbs sampler or to restart every L th pass has been discussed in the literature (see, for example, Tanner, 1991; Carlin, Polson and Stoffer, 1992; Casella and George, ...
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A Monte Carlo Analysis for Stochastic Distance Function Frontier
... Envelopment Analysis (DEA) whose results can be decomposed, the parametric stochastic frontier method can not deal with multiple outputs and multiple inputs easily and ...Although ...
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Efficiency of Scottish Farms: A Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis
... REVIEW stochastic production frontiers to investigate efficiency using similar explanatory vari- ables, but producing different results regarding farm ...a stochastic cost frontier approach ...
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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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Cost Efficiency of Italian Commercial Banks:A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... three results: a sharp reduction of NPL; a lower degree of exposure to credit risk of banking book; the release of free capital, which naturally increases the operating ability of credit ...
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Model Selection in Stochastic Frontier Analysis: Maize Production in Kenya
... the stochastic frontier production model commonly used in the ...empirical analysis. Section 4 presents the estimation results from different model ...an analysis of technical ...
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Efficiency of Urban Bus Companies in India: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... 2 results reveal that the technical efficiency of bus transport operators can be explained by fleet utilization (which heavily depends on investment in new buses and maintenance of the old ones), firms’ profit, ...
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