stochastic frontier production function (SFA model)
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
... deterministic frontier model of Cobb Douglas production ...this model does not take account the possible influences of measurement errors and other noises up on the shape and positioning of ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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Impact of Economic Liberalization on Technical Efficiency of Firms: Evidence from India’s Electronics Industry
... In this study, we use a stochastic frontier production function along with an inefficiency model as specified by Battese and Coelli [39] in order to measure technical change, technical e[r] ...
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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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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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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 and economic efficiency of rice production in the Kou valley (Burkina Faso): Stochastic frontier approach
... the stochastic model was developed, allowing to measure for the first time technical, allocative and economic efficiency, using maximum likelihood measurement ...the stochastic frontier ...
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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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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 ...
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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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Efficacy of a numerical value of a fixed effect estimator in stochastic frontier analysis as an indicator of hospital production structure
... cost function with 4-year panel data of 185 samples from public hospitals in the United Kingdom ...cost function, accounting for patient character- istics and proxy indicators of care quality ...translog ...
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Dynamics of innovation and efficiency in banking system: An application of SFA and meta frontier method
... Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) is a parametric approach in modern benchmarking models that indicates the relationship between cost and inputs prices and ...of SFA is its stochastic ...
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Specification Testing of Production Frontier Function in Stochastic Frontier Model
... the production frontier function because it is easy to compute and the economic interpretation of the pro- duction process can fit into the production theory ...SF model is still ...
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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 ...
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Estimation of Production Function of Direct Health Care Services Delivered by Iranian Social Security Organization
... panel stochastic frontier approach (SFA) ...Douglas production function was estimated based on maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), using 7-year panel data derived from the yearbooks of ...
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Stochastic frontier models
... the stochastic frontier approach and model growth convergence as countries’ movements toward the world production ...world production frontier over time. By making u i a ...
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