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Technical Change and Efficiency
1995Technical change plays a central role in dynamic economics. Economic theory considers technology as the main driving force behind economic growth of capitalist economies. From an economic viewpoint three aspects of technical change have been discussed as important in the current economic literature.
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Technical Efficiency and Governance: The Case of China
2012Inefficient resource use by its enterprises may challenge the sustainability of Chinas intense and prolonged growth. Relying on a properly representative database of mainland Chinas economy, we investigate whether inefficiencies depend on ownership. Moreover, our stochastic frontier approach allows more flexibility to identify sources of inefficiency ...
Giovanni Ferri +2 more
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Education and Technical Efficie [PDF]
The Pakistan Development Review, 1988 It is now well recognized that education expedites the process of growth in an economy. In agriculture, leaving aside the external effects, it affects productivity in two quite distinct ways known as the allocative effect and the worker effect (Welch" 1970).
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DECOMPOSING TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY AND WINDOW ANALYSIS
Studies in Economics and Finance, 2004Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and window analysis are used to follow the changes in Australian trading banks' pure technical efficiency, scale efficiency, and the nature of returns to scale. The main findings indicate declining average efficiency scores until 1991, followed by a steady rise thereafter. Pure technical inefficiency emerges as a greater
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An extended farrell technical efficiency measure
Journal of Economic Theory, 1984When the efficient subsets and isoquants of the input level sets of a production technology are not equal, the conventional Debreu-Farrell efficiency index is not a reliable indicator of the efficiency of inputs usage. On the other hand, it possesses the property of being homogeneous of degree minus one in the inputs whose efficiency level is being ...
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TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF GRAIN PRODUCTION IN UKRAINE [PDF]
, 1998 A stochastic grain production frontier model is estimated on a representative sample of Ukrainian state farms. Technical inefficiency effects are modeled as a function of workforce composition, other farm-specific variables, and time. Technical inefficiency increased over time.
Kurkalova, Lyubov, Jensen, Helen
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Does Internet use improve technical efficiency? Evidence from apple production in China
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2021Ruifa Hu, Shi, Guanming
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Uncertainty and technical efficiency in Finnish agriculture
2009Two salient features of modern economic growth are the rise in aggregate savings rates and the steady increase in life expectancy. This paper links these processes, showing that under certain conditions economic theory supports the hypothesis that increased longevity leads to higher aggregate savings in steady state.
Nauges, Celine +2 more
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Water-use technical efficiency and income: Evidence from China's South-North Water Transfer Project
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022Jichuan Sheng
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