The production frontier approach
Production Economics Modeling and Analysis of Polluting firms: The Production Frontier Approach
... firms’ production using nonparametric methods. First, frontier production function of polluting firms is characterized by weak disposability between outputs and pollutants to reflecting the ...
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Decomposition of Labor Productivity Growth: A Multilateral Production Frontier Approach
... technology frontier is not ...best production technologies available to them given their internal economic and structural ...in production networks and social customs but at the same time require ...
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Efficiency in Damage Control Inputs: A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach
... farm production so that accurate estimates of the damage control inputs to be ...farm production is not efficient, policy measures directed to improve farmers know-how may well reduce chemical use and ...
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Efficiency of Large Scale Manufacturing in Pakistan : A Production Frontier Approach
... stochastic production frontier technique, a growing body of literature has used the approach to estimate industrial ...stochastic frontier production ...
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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 that ...
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Aggregate Matching Efficiency : A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach, France 1990-1994
... a production process and because the emphasis is on matching efficiency estimates, specifying the empirical model as a stochastic production frontier model seems a most natural modelling ...The ...
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Farmers' health status, agricultural efficiency, and poverty in rural Ethiopia: A stochastic production frontier approach
... The importance of the role of health in promoting economic development has been highlighted by Sachs (2001) in the Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. Indeed, improvements in health care increase the ...
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Technical Efficiency of Boro Rice Production in Meherpur District of Bangladesh: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... rice production and its determinants in Jamalpur district of ...stochastic production frontier approach was employed to estimate technical efficiency and determinants of efficiency in boro and ...
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EFFICIENCY OF VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN ALBANIA: A STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH
... use production per unit of inputs, or average production per unit of input use could be ...more production and associated perhaps with high ...holds, production per unit of input or ...
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Benchmarking the production of audit services: An efficiency frontier approach
... the production of audit services, in contrast to efficiency frontier techniques such as SFE and ...the production of audit services, the DEA results suggest the ...efficiency frontier ...
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Measuring efficiency in demersal trawlers using a frontier production function approach
... In the current literature, fish markets are analysed through bioeconomic models within the context of partial equilibrium. In the present paper, we propose a new approach of fish market modelling based on a ...
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Technical efficiency analysis of yam production in Edo state: A stochastic frontier approach
... The technical efficiency of yam farmers in Edo State was analysed in this study using the Stochastic Frontier Production Model. A multistage sampling technique was employed to select the 180 yam farmers ...
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Specification Testing of Production Frontier Function in Stochastic Frontier Model
... Parametric production frontier function has been commonly employed in stochas- tic frontier model but there was no proper test statistic for its ...parametric production frontier ...
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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 Hybrid Maize Production in Eastern Terai of Nepal: a Stochastic Frontier Approach
... maize production district in the eastern Gangetic plain of ...crop production, hybrid maize input cost and return, training received and problems on hybrid maize ...stochastic frontier model (see ...
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Technical Efficiency of Small Holder Cocoyam Production in Anambra State,Nigeria: A Cobb Douglas Stochastic Frontier Production Approach
... Table 1 shows the frequency distribution of respondents according to sex, age, education, farming experience, farm size and house hold size. Seventy four percent of the respondents were females while 31% consist of ...
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Cost efficiency of small-scale commercial broiler production in Zambia: A stochastic cost frontier approach
... included production inputs and output namely: quantities and prices of chicks, feed, veterinary drugs, litter, utilities (water and electricity), transport, and initial capital investment, birds sold and also ...
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Technical Efficiency of Small Scale Maize Production inMasaiti District, Zambia: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... Data for this study were collected from smallholder maize farming households in Kafubu farm block in Masaiti district on the Copperbelt province in Zambia. Geographically, Masaiti district is located approximately 35 ...
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Technical Efficiency of Maize Production in Fluoride Affected Locales, Tamil Nadu: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... grain production (APEDA ...in production is due to increase in yield (Thomas et ...maize production among fluoride affected and non affected locales of Tamil ...
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Technical and economic efficiency of rice production in the Kou valley (Burkina Faso): Stochastic frontier approach
... 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 technical, ...
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