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Essays on Stochastic Frontier Models
, 2023 This thesis consists of three independent chapters. The first chapter “Bayesian Inference in Dynamic Panel Stochastic Frontier Models” proposes a new stochastic frontier model which accounts for the intertemporal production behaviour. The conceptualization is based on the notion that firms face production adjustment costs in the short run due to the ...
Jonuzaj, Mariol +2 more
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Environmental Efficiency Measurement with Translog Distance Functions: A Parametric Approach [PDF]
We use a flexible parametric hyperbolic distance function to estimate environmental efficiency when some outputs are undesirable. Cuesta and Zofio (J. Prod.
Cuesta, Rafael A. +2 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Increasing nanocurvature effectively enriches the local electron density of the M–N4 motif, which facilitates electron transfer from the metal center to nitrogen atoms. This electronic behavior intensifies the localization and asymmetric distribution of charge, thereby significantly amplifying the dipole moment and polarizability.
Daohu Sheng +7 more
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On the Backwardness in Macroeconomic Performance of European Socialist Economies [PDF]
This paper aims to compare the macroeconomic performance of three European socialist economies (Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia) with developing and developed countries during the eighties.
Laurent Weill
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Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.Ising machines are emerging as specialized hardware solvers for computationally hard optimization problems. This review examines five major platforms—digital CMOS, analog CMOS, emerging devices, coherent optics, and quantum systems—highlighting physics‐rooted advantages and shared bottlenecks in scalability and connectivity.
Hyunjun Lee, Joon Pyo Kim, Sanghyeon Kim
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Technical Efficiency and Heterogeneity of Argentina Pension Funds [PDF]
This paper examines the technical efficiency of Argentinean pension funds management companies using a random stochastic frontier model to rank the pension funds management companies, taking into account heterogeneity in the data.
Carlos Pestana Barros +2 more
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli +2 more
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Accounting for heterogeneity in the measurement of hospital performance [PDF]
With prospective payment of hospitals becoming more common, measuring their performance is gaining in importance. However, the standard cost frontier model yields biased efficiency scores because it ignores technological heterogeneity between hospitals ...
Mehdi Farsi +2 more
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Climate Change Mitigation in the Dairy Sector: Uncovering Heterogeneity Through Eco‐Efficiency Clubs
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Combining climate change goals with economic targets is crucial for the dairy sector, which is a significant contributor to agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide. In this paper, we assess economic and climate change implications of dairy production with panel data of Irish dairy farms from 2013 to 2021.
Doris Läpple +2 more
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Confidence Statements for Efficiency Estimates from Stochastic Frontier Models [PDF]
This paper is an empirical study of the uncertainty associated with estimates from stochastic frontier models. We show how to construct confidence intervals for estimates of technical efficiency levels under different sets of assumptions ranging from the
Peter Schmidt, William C. Horrace
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