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“Wrong” skewness and endogenous regressors in stochastic frontier models: an instrument-free copula approach with an application to estimate firm efficiency in Vietnam
Stochastic frontier models commonly assume positively skewed inefficiency. However, if the data speak against this assumption, sample-failure...
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Efficiency Assessment of Airports and the Impact of Regulation on Performance
This paper reviews the methods used to measure airport performance and the impact of regulation on airport performance. We find that the most...
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Sustainable Green Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Regional Cooperation
Due to the continuous need to attain food security for the growing population, resource exploitation in the agriculture sector is evident. Hence,...
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Panel Stochastic Frontier Analysis with Positive Skewness
This paper focuses on solving the problem of technical efficiency estimation for panel data when residuals are right-skewed. Indeed, there is an...
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Technological advances and trends in the mining industry: a systematic review
Nowadays, in a competitive world, industries are faced with the urgent need to establish strategies for innovation, this is how the mining industry,...
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Management Efficiency and Organizational Inefficiency
Shown in this chapter, which is mainly based Lin and Forrest (Kybernetes 37(1):149–165, 2008) and Forrest and Orvis (Kybernetes 45(8):1308–1322,...
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The Impact of Global Financial Crisis on the Efficiency of Indian Banks: Evaluation with Data Envelopment Analysis
This study advocates the use of non-radial Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in order to evaluate productive efficiency of banks. We present a...
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Efficiency of Innovation Policy with Different Types of R&D Planning: Evidence from South Korea’s Information and Communication Technology Sector
Two major approaches in national research and development (R&D) planning, top-down and bottom-up, have been compared in academic research, and their...
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Short-run Johansen frontier-based industry models: methodological refinements and empirical illustration on fisheries
This contribution focuses on extending the current state of the art in a central resource allocation planning model known under the name of the...
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Theoretical Basis for Analysis of Natural Resource Supervision Systems
With the rapid development of the economy, the demand for kerosene and other natural resources has increased rapidly. The market is in short supply,...
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Impacts of Farmers Group on the Technical Efficiency of Oil Palm Production in Indonesia: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Agricultural sector in Indonesia plays an important role in raising rural livelihood, as it is becoming the main source of national income....
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The nonlinear and threshold effects of IT investment on the banking sector of Bangladesh
In the modern banking industry, investment in information technology (IT) is crucial to maintain technological advances, operational efficiency,...
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Fair Division of Indivisible Goods
Chapters 4 through 7 focused on collective decision-making problems (in particular, voting) with the default assumption that all agents are concerned...
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Dynamics of Operational Efficiency in Credit Lending and Recovery of Stressed Assets: An Alternative Approach with Undesirable By-Products
Our study estimates the operational efficiency of Indian banks during 2009–2010 to 2017–2018, considering advances, and recovery of stressed assets...
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The Shapley value in positional queueing problems
A group of agents are waiting to be served in a facility. Each server in the facility can serve only one agent at a time and agents differ in their...
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Digital Economy’s Impact on High-Quality Economic Growth: a Comprehensive Analysis in the Context of China
In the rapidly evolving global economic environment, China has emerged as a key player and is now shifting its focus from rapid progress to...
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Partially Convex Production Technology and Efficiency Measurement
Economists tend to believe that production technology should exhibit increasing returns to scale first and then constant and finally decreasing...
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A general impossibility theorem on Pareto efficiency and Bayesian incentive compatibility
This paper studies a general class of social choice problems in which agents’ payoff functions (or types) are privately observable random variables,...
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Automation of Agriculture Based on Deep Learning: Modeling and Management to Improve Quality and Efficiency
The research purpose is related to the modeling of automation of agriculture and identifying the prospects for improving the management of this...
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Rising Tides of Knowledge: Exploring China’s Higher Education Landscape and Human Capital Growth
This study examines the status of human capital in China’s higher education system by analyzing the quantity of higher education institutions as a...
