Stochastic frontier production models
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 ...Two ...
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The Impact of Liberalization on the Production of Electricity in Japan: Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... electricity production in Japan using Stochastic Frontier Analysis ...electricity production by introducing ...and stochastic frontier models of the cost function are ...
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The Measurement Of Efficiency Where There Are Multiple Outputs
... output models to estimate the technical efficiency of enterprises in the international electricity, gas and telecom- munications ...output production models may yield misleading results in respect of ...
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A Metafrontier Production Function for Estimation of Technical Efficiencies of Wheat Farmers under Different Technologies
... the stochastic frontier model, was rejected for all ...Cobb-Douglas frontier is an adequate representation of the data was strongly rejected, as was the null hypothesis that there was no technical ...
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Specification Testing of Production Frontier Function in Stochastic Frontier Model
... We note that due to its technical tractability and easy computation, the local smoothing method introduced by Zheng (1996) and Fan and Li (1996) has been used intensively. For instance, Guo et al. (2014), Lin et al. ...
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EFFICIENCY OF VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN ALBANIA: A STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH
... Cobb-Douglas production function and initial estimates for factor regression ...data models. We have three major categories of panel data models: fixed effects (FE), random effects (RE) and pool ...
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Sensitivity analysis of efficiency rankings to distributional assumptions: applications to Japanese water utilities
... trans-log stochastic production-frontier models, using data from 1,221 Japanese water utilities (for 2004 and ...heteroscedastic models, where we also introduce a doubly heteroscedastic ...
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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 ...estimated frontier. Alternatively, any deviation from the frontier will be taken as ...the models which decompose the error ...
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Technical Efficiency of Barley Production: The Case of Smallholde Farmers in Meket District, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia
... barley production by smallholder farmers in Meket district, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia ...2016/17 production season was collected by applying two stage random ...econometric models were ...
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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 ...
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A Monte Carlo Analysis for Stochastic Distance Function Frontier
... index models. These models can be regarded as applications of Shephard's (1953, 1970) and Malmquist's (1953) distance ...parametric stochastic frontier method can not deal with multiple ...
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Estimating fixed effect panel stochastic frontier models by model transformation
... using stochastic frontier models often interpret individual effects as inefficiency ...a stochastic production frontier ...transform models to eliminate individual effects ...
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Measuring productivity and efficiency: a Kalman filter approach
... In the Kalman …lter setting, one can model the ine¢ ciency term of the standard stochastic frontier composed error as an unobserved state. In this study a panel data version of the local level model is used ...
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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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Production frontiers and efficiency measures : concepts and applications
... agricultural production value serves as the aggregate to tal o u tp u ...crop production; (ii) forestry; (iii) anim al husbandry; (iv) sideline industries; and (v) ...
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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, emphasizing ...
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Selecting window width in data envelopment analysis using a method based on analytical hierarchical process
... multi-output production functions and applied in many industries ...Like Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), DEA identifies a ”frontier” on which the relative performance of all utilities in ...
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Technical Efficiency of Vegetable Farmers in Peri-Urban Ghana Influence and Effects of Resource Inequalities
... food production and are the most important actors in the food chain which begins from the farm production, market and intra household distribution of ...food production, they have much more limited ...
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Application of ‘Data Envelopment Analysis’ in Ecological Research of Maintenance of Forestry Mechanisation
... DEA models determine empiric efficiency frontier (frontier of production possibilities) based on data of used inputs and achieved outputs of all decision making ...each production unit, ...
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Efficiency of financial micro intermediation in the WAEMU countries: A stochastic frontier production analysis
... The macroeconomic data used to estimate the stochastic frontier production function are extracted from three data bases mainly: the PENN World Table 6.3 concerning the variables L, Y, GCF 6 , but ...
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