Efficiency of the Albanian Banking System: Traditional Approach and Stochastic Frontier Analysis
, 2013 Suela Kristo
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Do Farm Programs Explain Mean and Variance of Technical Efficiency? Stochastic Frontier Analysis
, 2010 Rahul Ranjan +5 more
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Quality of Service, Efficiency, and Scale in Network Industries: An Analysis of European Electricity Distribution [PDF]
Quality of service is of major economic significance in natural monopoly infrastructure industries and is increasingly addressed in regulatory schemes. However, this important aspect is generally not reflected in efficiency analysis of these industries ...
Christian Growitsch +2 more
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Technical efficiency of teaching hospitals in Iran: the use of Stochastic Frontier Analysis, 1999-2011. [PDF]
Int J Health Policy Manag, 2014 Goudarzi R +5 more
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Estimation of semiparametric stochastic frontiers under shape constraints with application to pollution generating technologies [PDF]
A number of studies have explored the semi- and nonparametric estimation of stochastic frontier models by using kernel regression or other nonparametric smoothing techniques. In contrast to popular deterministic nonparametric estimators, these approaches
Kortelainen, Mika
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Productivity Growth of East Asia Economies' Manufacturing: A Decomposition Analysis [PDF]
Applying a stochastic production frontier to sector-level data within manufacturing, this paper examines total factor productivity (TFP) growth for eight East Asian economies during 1963-1998, using both single country and cross-country regression.
David Llewellyn +3 more
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Farm Productivity and Efficiency in Rural Bangladesh: The Role of Education Revisited [PDF]
This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm pro duction in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing hous eholds from 141 villages.
Asadullah, M. Niaz, Rahman, Sanzidur
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Outreach and Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions [PDF]
This paper uses stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to examine whether there is a trade-off between outreach to the poor and efficiency of microfinance institutions (MFIs).
Hermes, Niels +2 more
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