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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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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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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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EFFICIENCY OF VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN ALBANIA: A STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH
... As we discussed above, SFA uses ML estimator to obtain estimates of the model parameters and variances of u and v components of the error term e. For this we need to know which factors to include in the Cobb-Douglas ...
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Benchmarking the production of audit services: An efficiency frontier approach
... and (aggregated and disaggregated) audit hours. 12 Table 2 also shows that the results for some variables are inconsistent with our expectation in that they have a sign opposite to the one we expected (when these effects ...
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Zero-inefficiency stochastic frontier models with varying mixing proportion:a semiparametric approach
... semiparametric approach for estimating the zero-inefficiency stochastic frontier model ...both frontier parameters and the nonparametric function of the probability of firms being ...
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Economics Efficiency of Rabbit (Oryctolagus Cuniculus)Production in Anambra State, Nigeria (A Stochastic Frontier Profit Function Approach)
... rabbit production is largely traditional, non-commercially oriented, family consumption targeted, and smallholder type operation comprising 2-7 does and 3 bucks with Nigeria and Ghana as cases in point (Ekpeyong ...
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Characteristics of Farmers and Technical Efficiency in Cocoa Farming at Sigi Regency - Indonesia with Approach Stochastic Frontier Production Function
... Labor significantly affect in cocoa production at Sigi Regency - Indonesia, where t statistic = 2.221> t table = 1.985 in level α = 5%. Regression coefficient (elasticity of production) 0.314 means that ...
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On measuring indebtedness of African countries: A stochastic frontier debt production function
... stochastic frontier production function approach and the technical efficiency computation procedure to develop an indebtedness index for 46 African ...better approach of debt management ...
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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 of Large Scale Manufacturing in Pakistan : A Production Frontier Approach
... amid varying policy environments ranging from outright import substitution in the early years to a more deregulated and liberal environment in the recent years driven largely by concerns to improve the efficiency ...
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Homogenization of periodically varying coefficients in electromagnetic materials
... response function. Our numerical approximation to this approach in- volved a recursive convolution method to approximate the integral ...an approach in which the homogenized model involves an ...
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The Effective Use of Student Time: A Stochastic Frontier Production Function Case Study
... structural approach to an important possible bias in our ...stochastic frontier approach takes a mechanistic approach to the problem of unobserved ability by effectively modelling the ...
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Application of the Stochastic Production Frontier Function Model to Cassava Production in the Floodplain Area of Rivers State, Nigeria
... the frontier model on the determinants of technical efficiency of cassava production in the floodplain area of Rivers State as presented in Table ...cassava production in the floodplain areas of ...
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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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Economic Efficiency of Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato Vine Production in North Central, Nigeria: A Translog Stochastic Frontier Cost Function Approach
... stochastic frontier cost function to measure the level of economic efficiency and its determinants in orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) vine production system in North – Central ...
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Cost efficiency in primary care contracting: A stochastic frontier cost function approach
... cost function, ...Cobb-Douglas function, as listed in Table ...the coefficients associated with population coverage are zero is ...efficient frontier and that the systematic and random cost ...
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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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Aggregate Matching Efficiency : A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach, France 1990-1994
... where δ j ≡ β 2 c j . In other words, the total number of matches is a function of the total number of job vacancies and job seekers, plus a set of variables representing the share of each group j in total ...
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Transfer Function Approach to Modeling Rice Production in Bangladesh
... B X N Y t t (1.1) where, the lag polynomial B 0 1 B 2 B 2 ... , allows X to influence y via a distribution lag, B often being referred to as the transfer function and the ...
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