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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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Estimation of semi- and nonparametric stochastic frontier models with endogenous regressors
This paper considers the problem of estimating a nonparametric stochastic frontier model with shape restrictions and when some or all regressors are...
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Modeling Tail Dependence Using Stochastic Volatility Model
As one can see in many previous well-known papers, an one–factor stochastic volatility model has its limitation to fit the market dynamics. Based on...
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Legality rating and corporate efficiency: evidence from a conditional nonparametric frontier analysis
Promoting legality and productivity is a central issue in modern economies. In this paper, we investigate the implications of a public policy that...
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Crime under-reporting in Bogotá: a spatial panel model with fixed effects
We examine spatial spillovers in violent crime and its under-reporting in Bogotá, Colombia, using a cuadrante (quadrant) level data. To model spatial...
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Asymptotic properties of a spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier model
This paper considers asymptotic properties of a spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier model. Relying on the asymptotic theory for nonlinear...
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India’s calorie consumption puzzle: insights from the stochastic cost frontier analysis of calorie purchases
Between the early 1970s and very nearly the present, Indians’ per capita calorie consumption declined. This decline, perplexing in the face of rising...
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Unknown latent structure and inefficiency in panel stochastic frontier models
This paper extends the fixed effect panel stochastic frontier models to allow group heterogeneity in the slope coefficients. We propose the...
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Measuring the effect of management on production: a two-tier stochastic frontier approach
We revisit the production frontier of a firm, and we examine the effects that the firm’s management has on output. In order to estimate these effects...
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Maximum simulated likelihood estimation of the seemingly unrelated stochastic frontier regressions
In this paper, we use the maximum simulated likelihood (MSL) approach to estimate multiple stochastic frontier (SF) models with random effects and...
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A ray-based input distance function to model zero-valued output quantities: Derivation and an empirical application
We derive and empirically apply an input-oriented distance function based on the stochastic ray production function suggested by Löthgren (
1997 ,2000 )...
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Data envelopment analysis for scale elasticity measurement in the stochastic case: with an application to Indian banking
In the nonparametric data envelopment analysis literature, scale elasticity is evaluated in two alternative ways: using either the technical...
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Perspiration versus inspiration: sources of national and provincial output growth in Indonesia [1990–2015] using province-level non-parametric frontier analysis
The primary source of national/provincial output growth between input growth/factor accumulation growth (“perspiration growth”) and total factor...
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Efficiency measurement of higher education units using multilevel frontier analysis
This study aims at evaluating the crucial effects of incorporating heterogeneities and hierarchies in the efficiency evaluation of higher education...
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Information asymmetry in fire insurance: a frontier approach
The composed error stochastic frontier model is used to separate random variations in fire insurance losses from systematic unexpected losses due to...
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Estimating efficiency effects in a panel data stochastic frontier model
This paper proposes a panel data based stochastic frontier model which accommodates time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity along with efficiency...
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Impacts of Information Sources on Technical Inefficiency of Crop Farmers in Vietnam: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Vietnam is an agricultural country where rice and maize are the two most important cereal crops. Recently, the proportion of high-tech...
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Goods and Services Tax efficiency across Indian States: panel stochastic frontier analysis
In public finance, estimation of tax potential of a government—either federal or provincial—has immense importance to understand future streams of...
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Does high debt ratio influence Chinese firms’ performance? A semiparametric stochastic frontier approach with zero inefficiency
The excessive debt ratio of Chinese firms has raised concerns over its impact on productive efficiency. We employ a firm-level dataset over 1998–2007...
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A Novel Pythagorean Approach Based Sine-Shaped Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis Model: An Assessment of Indian Public Sector Banks
Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis is a modeling technique that efficiently ranks decision-making units (DMUs) based on imprecise inputs and outputs....
