Stochastic Frontier Approach
Technical and resource use efficiency of urban vegetable farming in the Kumasi Metropolis: A stochastic frontier approach
... The changing food demands by the teeming urban population, job search, and sector profitability have made vegetable production indispensable as it contributes to increased incomes and livelihoods of urban dwellers.This ...
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Determinants of foreign-owned banks efficiency in New Zealand: a stochastic frontier approach
... parametric stochastic frontier approach (SFA) is employed to extend the existing bank efficiency studies that used the non- parametric approach--Data Envelopment Analysis ...SFA ...
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Technical Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions in India A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... Study attempts to measure the efficiency level and its determinants of a sample of microfinance institutions operating in India by applying stochastic frontier approach for unbalanced panel of 40 ...
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Analýza efektívnosti slovenských bánk využitím Stochastic Frontier Approach
... Z daných predpokladov taktiež vyplývajú silné a slabé stránky metód. V tejto štúdii je použitý parametrický prístup a konkrétne metoda Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA). Táto metóda umožňuje odlíšiť ...
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A stochastic frontier approach to measuring regional technical efficiency in China
... parametric stochastic frontier approach ...DEA approach suffers from two major criticisms (Lovell, 1993; Coelli et ...DEA approach assumes away measurement error, which implies that all ...
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Analysis of technical efficiency of rice production in fogera district of Ethiopia: A stochastic frontier approach
... using stochastic frontier approach and found an average technical efficiency score of 77% implying better scope to enhancing the resource use ...employed stochastic frontier ...
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Technical and economic efficiency of rice production in the Kou valley (Burkina Faso): Stochastic frontier approach
... The stochastic frontier approach was used to estimate the production function, from a Cobb- Douglas stochastic frontier function and its dual which allow the estimation of the ...
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Regional Tourism Competition in the Baltic States: a Spatial Stochastic Frontier Approach
... modern approach called Spatial Stochastic Frontier and corresponded to spatial modification of a stochastic frontier ...spatial stochastic frontier models – distance and ...
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Technical Efficiency of Boro Rice Production in Meherpur District of Bangladesh: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... Among six square parameters only the coefficient of irrigation square is statistically significant and has positive sign. It means that an increase in irrigation cost will increase boro rice production at an increasing ...
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Technical Efficiency of Cricket (A. domesticus and G. bimaculatus) Production: A Cobb-Douglas Stochastic Frontier Approach
... A stochastic trend is manifested in a series if the series moves upward and downward as a result of stochastic effects meaning its mean is a function of ...
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Productivity Growth, Technological Progress, and Efficiency Change in Vietnamese Manufacturing Industries: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... a stochastic frontier ap- proach to sector-level data within manufacturing and examined total factor productivity (TFP) growth for eight East Asian economies during 1963-1998, using both sin- gle country ...
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Assessing the strategic fit of potential M&As in Chinese banking:A novel Bayesian stochastic frontier approach
... Specifically, with respect to M&As, there has been a growing number of studies examining the potential gains to be made from mergers in the bank sector based on the strategic fit of two banks (Shi, Yongjun, ...
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Applications of the stochastic frontier approach in Energy Economics
... non-clustering approach includes the panel data frontier models introduced by Greene (2005), where unobserved heterogeneity is captured through a set of firm-specific intercepts (more details can be found ...
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Does the Hartz IV Reform have an Effect on Matching Efficiency in Germany? A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... So far, as outlined in the literature review, no other study examines the impact of stocks and flows and their interactions on labor market matching by applying a stochastic translog frontier. However, to ...
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Technical Efficiency of Maize Production in Fluoride Affected Locales, Tamil Nadu: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... In this paper, parameters are analysed using maximum likelihood estimates with single step approach by following (Battese and Coelli 1995). For the present study, Cobb-Douglas production frontier using ...
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EFFICIENCY OF VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN ALBANIA: A STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH
... aggregate approach; to evaluate efficiency of vegetable production we use aggregate (regional level) ...(Stochastic Frontier Analysis), which is a parametric and econometric ...
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Stochastic frontier models
... the stochastic frontier approach and model growth convergence as countries’ movements toward the world production ...production frontier over ...
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A Monte Carlo Analysis for Stochastic Distance Function Frontier
... for stochastic distance function frontier model was developed to test the asymptotic ...of stochastic distance function, used to overcome the criticisms related to the stochastic ...
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Technical efficiency and corporate structure of Italian private hospitals: evidence from one step Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... a Stochastic Frontier Approach (Greene, 2005), specifically a true fixed effect model (TFE) as it has some advantages over other SFA models for panel ...
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Productivity of the hired and family labour and determinants of technical inefficiency in Ghana’s fish farms
... the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) which uses econometric ...the stochastic frontier approach as it is preferred because of the inherent stochasticity involved (Aigner et ...
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