Stochastic frontier production function
Application of Stochastic Frontier Production Function to Separate the Effect of Random Variation in Output from Inefficiency in the Agricultural Production of African CountriesAuthor(s): Kalu Ukpai Ifegwu and Joshua Olusegun Ajetomobi
... the stochastic frontier production function to separate the effect of random variation in output from inefficiency in the agricultural production of African ...Quasi-translog ...
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Profit Efficiency among Cotton Farmers: A Cobb-Douglass Stochastic Frontier Production Function Analysis
... sided error term (v) account for random variation in profit attributed to the factors outside the farmer‟s control (random effects, measurement errors, omitted explanatory variables and statistical noise). The one-sided ...
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Profit Efficiency among Paddy Farmers: A Cobb-Douglas Stochastic Frontier Production Function Analysis
... The stochastic disturbance term ( ) consists of two independent elements: “v” and “u”. The symmetric two sided error term (v) account for random variation in profit attributed to factors outside the farmer’s ...
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Sea Port Operational Efficiency: An Evaluation of Five Asian Ports Using Stochastic Frontier Production Function Model
... and production function theory, by means of data envelopment analysis (DEA), to estimate the most effi- cient production frontier across a set of sea-ports [6,12, ...
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Productivity and Resource Use Efficiency in Wheat: A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach
... wheat production in the state of Bihar has been studied using stochastic frontier production function ...in production of wheat in the state was estimated to be 94 per cent, ...
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Production frontiers and efficiency measures : concepts and applications
... e stochastic frontier production function in the statistical approach assumes th a t th e effects of technical inefficiency on input prod u ctiv ity (or elasticity) are th e sam e for each ...
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Estimation of Resource Use Efficiency and Technical Efficiency of Small Onion Farmers in Tamil Nadu: A Cobb-Douglas and Stochastic Frontier Approach
... The stochastic frontier production function resulted that, the coefficients of inputs like bulb, plant protection chemicals, human labour and machine hours were significant at 1% respectively ...
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A Metafrontier Production Function for Estimation of Technical Efficiencies of Wheat Farmers under Different Technologies
... given production technology, which is assumed to be defined by a stochastic frontier production function model, are not comparable with those of farms operating under different ...a ...
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Analysis of technical efficiency of rice production in fogera district of Ethiopia: A stochastic frontier approach
... improve production and productivity with a given input mix and available technology is to improve efficiency of resource ...the production process is very ...rice production in Fogera District of ...
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Technical Efficiency of Maize Production in Fluoride Affected Locales, Tamil Nadu: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... maize production among fluoride affected and non affected locales of Tamil ...120. Stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate technical efficiency of ...of ...
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Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Tomato Production in Adamawa State, Nigeria
... the stochastic frontier production function and inefficiency model results are presented in Table 1 and ...the stochastic frontier production function indicates ...
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Technical Efficiency of Small Holder Cocoyam Production in Anambra State,Nigeria: A Cobb Douglas Stochastic Frontier Production Approach
... Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function to measure the level of technical efficiency and its determinants in small-holder cocoyam production in Anambra state, ...the ...
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Explaining technical inefficiency and the variation in income from apple adoption in highland Ethiopia: The role of unequal endowments and knowledge asymmetries
... the stochastic frontier production function for maize farmers in eastern Ethiopia, distinguishing between par- ticipants and non-participants in a project that pro- motes high-input maize ...
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Impact of Economic Liberalization on Technical Efficiency of Firms: Evidence from India’s Electronics Industry
... the production of a given output vector, or the ability to obtain maximum output from a given input ...Translog stochastic frontier production function in order to measure technical ...
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On measuring indebtedness of African countries: A stochastic frontier debt production function
... a stochastic frontier production function approach and the technical efficiency computation procedure to develop an indebtedness index for 46 African ...
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Technical efficiency and supply chain practices in dairying: The case of India
... countries. reardon and Barrett (2000), Sartorius and Kristen (2007), Demircan et al. (2010) and caberera et al. (2010) have found that small dairy farmers are gradually becoming less profitable and loosing their market ...
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Relationship between plot size and technical efficiency of cassava farms in oyo state of nigeria: a stochastic frontier analysis
... the production frontier. The parameters of the stochastic frontier production function and the inefficiency model were estimated using the computer program Frontier ...
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Technical and economic efficiency of rice production in the Kou valley (Burkina Faso): Stochastic frontier approach
... to stochastic frontier production function, the results showed that the coefficient of variables as farm size, quantity of fertilizer used, years of experience and literacy are significant, ...
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Stochastic frontier models
... The stochastic frontier model was first proposed by Aigner et ...of production function ...classical production function estimation by allowing for the presence of technical ...
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Efficacy of a numerical value of a fixed effect estimator in stochastic frontier analysis as an indicator of hospital production structure
... In our analysis, we used a large casemix database based on Japanese diagnosis-related grouping called the Diag- nosis Procedure Combination (DPC) [13]. The DPC was introduced to the Japanese social insurance system in ...
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