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Ranking influencing factors on relative efficiency of banking industry [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2013 Measuring the relative efficiency of banking industry has been one of the most interesting areas of research for the past few years. There are literally various techniques for measuring the relative performance of similar units such as banks including ...
Hadi Hematian +2 more
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Investors' Under-Reaction to Accounting Earnings News Announcements Stochastic Frontier Model [PDF]
راهبرد مدیریت مالی, 2013 Capital markets react to various corporate announcements, and one such significant announcement is the accounting earnings announcement. If the market is efficient, stock price is near to fair value.
gholamreza kordestani +2 more
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Technical efficiency of smallholder producers in barley production in Northern Ethiopia
Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 Barley is among the major staple cereal crops in Ethiopia. Despite this, the smallholder barley producers experienced a lower level of technical efficiency due to different factors.
Enatye Moges +3 more
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Investigation of wheat efficiency and productivity development in Slovakia
Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2006 This study has focused on two main tasks: verifying the suitability of using stochastic frontier analysis on a transforming sector, and providing empirical evidence to explain the technical efficiency structure among farms in the time period 2000-2004 ...
S. Covaci, Z. Sojková
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Bayesian Model Averaging and Prior Sensitivity in Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Econometrics, 2020 This paper discusses Bayesian model averaging (BMA) in Stochastic Frontier Analysis and investigates inference sensitivity to prior assumptions made about the scale parameter of (in)efficiency. We turn our attention to the “standard” prior specifications
Kamil Makieła, Błażej Mazur
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Agriculture, 2021 This study analyzed factors affecting profit efficiency of rice farms in wet-season lowlands in the Champhone District of Savannakhet Province in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic based on a farmer’s decision to maximize profits. The profit efficiency
Sengphachan Khounthikoumane +2 more
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Pitfalls of Normal-Gamma Stochastic Frontier Models [PDF]
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 1997 Although conceptually pleasing, normal-gamma frontier models lead to difficult estimation problems. It is shown here that unless the sample size reaches several thousands of observations the shape parameter of the gamma density is hard to estimate, and that this carries over to estimates of the stochastic frontier, the individual inefficiencies, and ...
RITTER, Christian, SIMAR, Leopold
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Transfer Learning of High-Dimensional Stochastic Frontier Model via Elastic Net
AxiomsIn this paper, the high-dimensional stochastic frontier model problem is explored via Elastic Net under the transfer learning framework. When the target data is limited, transfer learning improves the accuracy of model estimation and prediction by ...
Jiahao Chen, Wenjun Chen, Yunquan Song
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The South East Asian Journal of Management, 2013 While the positive productivity spillover from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to domestic owned firms in host countries is unequivocally emphasized in theory, the empirical evidence is contradictory.
Toan Thang Tran
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A PROFIT ANALYSIS OF SMALL-SCALE MAIZE FARMERS: A CASE STUDY IN THE BRONG AHAFO REGION OF GHANA, WEST AFRICA [PDF]
Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2019 The importance of small-scale maize cultivation to the Ghanaian economy cannot be overemphasized especially in an era where issues of global food security and sustainability are the topmost priorities in developing economies, however, little is known ...
Attipoe S.G. +2 more
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