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TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF RURAL WATER UTILITIES [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1995 Technical efficiency of rural water utilities is determined using frontier production functions. An indirect production function is developed to model the two-step production process of a local government-controlled firm. Data from 26 rural Nevada water utilities are used to estimate inefficiency in terms of firm-specific variables.
Bhattacharyya, Arunava +7 more
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Assessing the Overall Technical Efficiency, Pure Technical Efficiency, and Scale Efficiency of United States Department of Defense Hospitals. [PDF]
Risk Manag Healthc PolicyThis study aims to evaluate US Department of Defense hospital efficiency.Drawing on the American Hospital Association's annual survey data, the study employs data envelopment analysis, slack analysis, and the Malmquist Productivity Index to identify the differences in hospital efficiency between Air Force, Army, and Navy hospitals as well as the trends
Oh D, Lee KH, Choi D.
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TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN RUSSIAN AGRICULTURE [PDF]
, 2006 For decades, Russian agriculture had had little technological progress and virtually no foreign investment, which resulted in a stable production possibilities frontier and made the sector ideally suited to production function analysis. The production function estimations reported in Chapters 10-13 add to a series of previous studies of the input ...
Brock, Gregory J. +3 more
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Absorptive Capacity and Efficiency: A Comparative Stochastic Frontier Approach Using Sectoral Data [PDF]
, 2012 In this paper, we investigate differences in and determinants of technical efficiency across three groups of OECD, Asian and Latin American countries. As technical efficiency determines the capacity with which countries absorb technology produced abroad,
Montinari, Letizia, Rochlitz, Michael
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The fixed effects estimator of technical efficiency [PDF]
, 2012 Firms and organizations, public or private, often operate on markets characterized by non-competitiveness. For example agricultural activities in the western world are heavily subsidized and electricity is supplied by firms with market power.
Wikström, Daniel
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Innovation, Competition and Technical Efficiency
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 Contradictory empirical and theoretical evidence on the relationship between innovation and competition has been reconciled in a model that yields an inverted U-shaped curve. I test whether the predictions of the model are supported by the data with an unbalanced panel of firms for 1990–2003 in a high productivity growth, high-tech industry, Finnish ...
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Technical Efficiency Evaluation: Naturally Dual! [PDF]
We provide a dual perspective on technical efficiency evaluation, in two respects. First, we build on the price assumptions implicitly associated with the notion of technical efficiency in a general equilibrium framework to characterize a set of ...
Laurens Cherchye, Tom Van Puyenbroeck
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Technical Efficiency of Soybeans Commodity
KINERJA, 2017 This research aims to find out the description of soybean farming in Grobogan Regency, the efficiency of technical, price, and economy on soybean systems. Grobogan Regency is a major soybean producer in Central Java and Indonesia. Based on the research result, it reveals that soybean farming in Grobogan has still not been efficient yet in technic ...
Avi Budi Setiawan, Prasetyo Ari Bowo
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Technical Efficiency and Return to Scale of Dairy Farm in Sleman, YOGYAKARTA [PDF]
, 2006 Usahatani sapi perah di Indonesia secara ekonomi mempunyai prospek yang bagus, karena produksinya belum mencukupi permintaan susu dalam negeri. Hal ini disebabkan USAhatani tersebut masih berskala kecil dengan menggunakan teknologi yang masih tradisional,
Mariyono, J. (J)
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Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Small-Scale Rice Farmers in Indonesia [PDF]
, 2018 In this study, we analyzed the performance of small-scale rice farmers who used hand tractors in Jember Regency, Indonesia. Data were collected from 144 small-scale rice farmers in six districts through the use of a questionnaire in September 2015.
Kano, H. (Hideyuki) +2 more
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