Inefficiency and Self-Determination: Simulation-Based Evidence from Meiji Japan [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 Does the exercise of the right of self-determination lead to inefficiency? This paper considers a set of centrally planned municipal mergers during the Meiji period, with data from Gifu prefecture. The observed merger pattern can be explained as a social optimum based on a very simple individual utility function. If individual villages had been allowed
Weese, Eric +2 more
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Spatial stochastic frontier models: accounting for unobserved local determinants of inefficiency [PDF]
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2008 This paper analyzes the productivity of farms across 370 municipalities in the Center-West region of Brazil. A stochastic frontier model with a latent spatial structure is proposed to account for possible unknown geographical variation of the outputs. The paper compares versions of the model that include the latent spatial effect in the mean of output ...
Alexandra M. Schmidt +3 more
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Inter-regional performance of the public health system in a high-inequality country.
PLoS ONE, 2014 Previous cross-country studies have revealed a relationship between health and socio-economic factors. However, multinational studies that use aggregate figures could obfuscate the actual situation in each individual region, or even in each individual ...
Maria Cristina Gramani
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PROFIT EFFICIENCY OF SMALLHOLDER MAIZE FARMERS IN SAGNARIGU MUNICIPAL OF NORTHERN GHANA [PDF]
Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2022 Research background: Maize is the most important cereal crop produced by most households in Ghana for income and household food security. Despite its economic importance, not much study has been carried out on maize profit efficiency in Ghana, hence this
Benjamin Tetteh ANANG +1 more
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Technical efficiency of smallholder honey farmers in Jimma zone, Ethiopia
RUDN Journal of Economics, 2020 This study analyzes technical efficiency and determinants of the efficiency of honey production in the Gomma and Gera districts of the Jimma zone. The data were obtained from 194 randomly selected honey-producing smallholder farmers.
Hailemariam Legesse +3 more
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A Stochastic Frontier Analysis of the Human Capital Effects on the Manufacturing Industries’ Technical Efficiency in the United States [PDF]
Athens Journal of Business & Economics, 2022 This study seeks to establish substantive empirical evidence on the role of college and non-college labour in productivity through technical efficiency in the manufacturing sector in the U.S. economy.
Salem Gheit
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Measuring inefficiency of MSEs in the food processing sector
Jurnal Ekonomi dan Bisnis, 2023 The food processing sector is a sector that consistently contributes to gross domestic product (GDP) for the non-Oil and Gas industry and also a sector that can deal with various economic shocks.
Fitrah Sari Islami +4 more
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Analysis of technical efficiency among youth involved in crop production in Njombe Region, Tanzania
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2022 This study aimed to estimate the Technical Efficiency (TE) of youth crop farmers in Njombe Region of Tanzania, and analyze the determinants of technical inefficiency for crops produced.
Adella A. Ng’Atigwa +3 more
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Determinants of non-performing loans in conventional and Islamic banks: Emerging market evidence
Modern Finance, 2023 This study examines the determinants of non-performing loans (NPLs) among macroeconomic and bank-specific factors for the Islamic and conventional banking sectors in Bangladesh. We implement a dynamic panel data model with a two-stage system GMM for the
Md. Feroz Khan +3 more
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Technical efficiency of smallholder malt barley producers in Tiyo district (Ethiopia)
RUDN Journal of Economics, 2019 This study analyzed the determinants of technical efficiency of smallholder malt barley producers and estimated their technical efficiency in Tiyo district of Arsi zone, Ethiopia.
Yadeta Bekele, Guta Regasa
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