Stochastic Frontier and Technical Inefficiency Effects Model
Factors affecting the technical inefficiency of Thai manufacturing and exporting small and medium sized enterprises: A stochastic frontier analysis (SFA)
... a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and technical inefficiency effects model to predict the technical efficiency of 3,168 Thai manufacturing and exporting SMEs, analyze ...
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Technical Efficiency of Manufacturing Enterprises in Libya: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... the technical efficiency in the Zimbabwean manufacturing industries using the stochastic frontier approach ...estimated technical efficiency of Thai manufacturing small and medium sized ...
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Technical inefficiency and public capital in US States: A stochastic frontier approach
... overall technical efficiency change and technological ...the frontier, inaccuracies in measuring input and output, or luck affecting outcomes, may alter the measured efficiency of all the regions that are ...
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Essays on Characterizing Inefficiency for Stochastic Frontier Models
... the model in ...spatial model to the frontier of a set of …rms ...the model using a multivariate search method which uses a concentrated ...
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Effects of model specification, short-run, and long-run inefficiency: an empirical analysis of stochastic frontier models
... neoclassical frontier function applied in empirical efficiency models entails an assumption that all farms are fully ...a stochastic frontier (SF) model for cross-sectional data, which ...
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Inefficiency, heterogeneity and spillover effects in maternal care in India: a spatial stochastic frontier analysis
... a stochastic frontier ...learning effects, spatial dependence and spillover effects have been explicitly introduced into the present ...a model is introduced in the health care ...
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On the estimation of zero-inefficiency stochastic frontier models with endogenous regressors
... zero-inefficiency stochastic frontier (ZISF) models by mean of simultaneous equation ...the model. Moreover, the firm specific inefficiency score is also ...
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TECHNICAL INEFFICIENCY AND PAPAYA FARM SIZE IN WEST AFRICA: A STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH ON BENIN AND GHANA DATA
... Plot area is the only one factor which has the greatest elasticity in the function production in both countries. Some studies showed the influence of the plot area on the technical efficiency (Alvarez and Arias ...
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Technical Efficiency of Major crops In Ethiopia: Stochastic Frontier Model
... Production and productivity can be boosted either through increased use of inputs and/or improvement in technology or by improving the efficiency of producers or firms, given fixed level of inputs and technology. Even ...
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A Flexible Time-Varying Specification of the Technical Inefficiency Effects Model
... of technical efficiency changes into productivity growth using either parametric or non-parametric ...to model the contribution of technical efficiency changes into productivity changes as being the ...
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A Laplace Stochastic Frontier Model
... proposed model also has implications for the empirical practice of identifying “super-efficient firms” in empirical ...estimated technical efficiency (see Timmer, 1971). The proposed stochastic ...
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Estimating Efficiency Effects in a Panel Data Stochastic Frontier Model
... 4. An Empirical Illustration Annual data from 1975–1976 to 1984–1985 on farmers from the village of Aurepalle in State of Andhra Pradesh in India 16 are used for empirical illustration. The data are unbalanced for 34 ...
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Heteroscedasticity and non monotonic efficiency effects of a stochastic frontier model
... a model that allows for non-monotonic efficiency effects across observations can better describe the data, and the results can also be more informative for the purpose of policy ...the model indeed ...
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Estimation of Inefficiency using a Firm specific Frontier Model
... cost inefficiency in the firm-specific frontier ...firm-specific frontier model where each firm is open to choose between stochastic and deterministic frontier ...generalized ...
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Zero-inefficiency stochastic frontier models with varying mixing proportion:a semiparametric approach
... zero-inefficiency stochastic frontier model ...both frontier parameters and the nonparametric function of the probability of firms being ...the effects of total assets on the ...
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Pseudolikelihood estimation of the stochastic frontier model
... extensively model the frontier, we believe that our simulation results here are ...the inefficiency term is correctly specified, all three methods have relative similar performance when estimating ...
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Specification Testing of Production Frontier Function in Stochastic Frontier Model
... production frontier function has not been ...the inefficiency term U is unknown, the asymptotic properties of the test statistics could be so complicated that there may not be any solution to ...SF ...
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A Spatial Stochastic Frontier Model with Endogenous Frontier and Environmental Variables
... Our Monte Carlo simulations show that our estimator performs well and ignoring endogeneity or spatial dependence leads to biased parameter and efficiency estimates. Using our estimator, we estimate the efficiencies of ...
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How students' exogenous characteristics affect faculties’ inefficiency. A heteroscedastic stochastic frontier approach
... partial effects on ( ), production uncertainty decreases with age, students who attended a lyceum and students with high ...the inefficiency of the faculties within the University of Salerno over the ...
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Distinguishing Between Spatial Heterogeneity and Inefficiency: Spatial Stochastic Frontier Analysis of European Airports
... the stochastic frontier model is insufficiently ...spatial stochastic frontier model with all types of spatial components – spatial lags, spatial autoregressive disturbances and ...
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