TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF CHINESE GRAIN PRODUCTION: A STOCHASTIC PRODUCTION FRONTIER APPROACH
This article examines technical efficiency of the Chinese grain sector using the framework of stochastic production frontier. The results reveal that: the marginal products of labor and fertilizer are much smaller than that of land; human capital and ...
Huffman, Wallace E. +2 more
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Mergers Among German Cooperative Banks. A Panel-based Stochastic Frontier Analysis [PDF]
Based on an unbalanced panel of all Bavarian cooperative banks for the years of 1989-97 which includes information on 283 mergers, we analyze motives and cost effects of small-scale mergers in German banking.
Günter Lang, Peter Welzel
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Enabling scalability by partitioning virtual environments using frontier sets
, 2006 We present a class of partitioning scheme that we have called frontier sets. Frontier sets build on the notion of a potentially visible set (PVS). In a PVS, a world is subdivided into cells and for each cell all the other cells that can be seen are ...
Angus, C., Steed, A.
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Wheat Productivity, Efficiency, and Sustainability: A Stochastic Production Frontier Analysis
This paper uses the farm-level survey data to estimate the stochastic frontier production function incorporating inefficiency effects. Sufficient evidence of positive relationship between wheat productivity and higher and balanced use of fertiliser ...
Iqbal, Muhammad +2 more
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Technical Efficiency of Pakistan s Manufacturing Sector: A Stochastic Frontier and Data Envelopment Analysis [PDF]
This paper examines the efficiency of the large-scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan using parametric as well as non-parametric frontier techniques.
Ejaz Ghani, Musleh-ud Din, Tariq Mahmood
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A Study on Technical Efficiency of Wheat Cultivation in Haryana
The farm-specific technical efficiency of wheat cultivation in Haryana at the aggregate and disaggregate levels has been studied using stochastic frontier approach.
Singh, Surender
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Semiparametric Estimation of Stochastic Frontiers A Bayesian Penalized Approach [PDF]
Almost all previous approaches to estimating semiparametric frontier models, where the functional form for the production (cost) function is unknown, have been local nonparametric (ie. kernel) approaches. In this paper we use a penalized (ie.
Gholamreza Hajargasht
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Technical Efficiency of Australian Wool Production: Point and Confidence Interval Estimates [PDF]
A balanced panel of data is used to estimate technical efficiency, employing a fixed-effects stochastic frontier specification for wool producers in Australia. Both point estimates and confidence intervals for technical efficiency are reported.
Iain Fraser, William C. Horrace
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Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a methodology widely used for evaluating the relative performance of portfolios under a mean–variance framework.
Fattahi, F, Lotfi, FH, Worthington, AC
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STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS OF NEW ZEALAND'S MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES: SOME EMPIRICAL RESULTS
This paper examines the sources of total factor productivity growth (TFP) in New Zealand's manufacturing industries over the period 1978-98 and over various sub-periods. Examination of the data adopts two stages using a stochastic frontier approach.
Xayavong, Vilaphonh, Gounder, Rukmani
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