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District-Level Inequity in Selected Indian States
In this chapter, we focus on district-level data for five major Indian states which include poor and rich states across different geographical...
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Tariff diversity and competition policy: drivers for broadband adoption in the European Union
While second-degree price discrimination is standard in commercial practice in many industries, consumer advocates and public interest groups have...
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Expected efficiency ranks from parametric stochastic frontier models
In the stochastic frontier model, we extend the multivariate probability statements of Horrace (J Econom, 126:335–354,
2005 ) to calculate the...
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Theories, Choice of Models, and Estimation Methods: The Problem of Empirical Credibility
Pour bien savoir les choses, il faut savoir le detail, et comme il est presque infini, nos connaisances sont...
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Technical Annex: Concepts and the Estimates of Two-input and Three-input Industry-wise TFP Growth Models of India’s Manufacturing Sector
The issues around total factor productivity growth (TFPG) mostly relate to conceptual, methodological, and estimation problems. The differences in...
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Survey of Studies on Airlines and Their Efficiencies
This chapter takes a closer look at previous studies on the efficiency and competitiveness of airlines. We provide a comprehensive review of the...
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Structural Reforms in the EU – Policy Prescriptions to Boost Productivity
Productivity-enhancing structural reforms are crucial to the economic prospects of the EU. Indeed, such reforms are even more urgent in the current...
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Measuring Japanese bank performance: a dynamic network DEA approach
A dynamic two-stage network model of production incorporating financial regulatory constraints is developed and estimated for Japanese commercial...
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Selected Socio-economic Aspects of Post-communist Health-Care Transition
This chapter establishes the meaning of the post-communist transformation by presenting key socio-economic changes that took place since 1989 and...
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Efficiency Selection Procedures for Capacity Utilization Estimation
A production function is estimated for a sample of vessels in the U.S. Bering Sea flatfish fishery. Panel data identify vessel-specific individual...
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State-Owned versus Township and Village Enterprises in China
This paper presents an up-to-date survey of the comparison issue between stateowned enterprises (SOEs) and township-village enterprises (TVEs) in...
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Efficiency, productivity, and scale economies in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry
The paper examines efficiency, productivity and scale economies in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry. Productivity change is analyzed...
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Technical efficiency analysis correcting for biases from observed and unobserved variables: an application to a natural resource management project
This article brings together the stochastic frontier framework with impact evaluation methodology to compare technical efficiency (TE) across...
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Is foreign-bank efficiency in financial centers driven by home or host country characteristics?
This paper investigates whether home or host country factors can explain differences in technical efficiency among foreign banks operating in the...
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Efficiency and technological change at US research universities
This article investigates the determinants of efficiency and technological progress at US research universities. It relies on a unique panel data set...
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A Revenue-Based Frontier Measure of Banking Competition
Standard indicators of banking competition frequently used in empirical studies have been: (a) the structure-conduct-performance (SCP) paradigm,...
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Market Consolidation and Productivity Growth in U.S. Wireline Telecommunications: Stochastic Frontier Analysis vs. Malmquist Index
This study analyzes the merger effects for 25 Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers over the period 1996–2005 using stochastic frontier analysis with a...
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Convergence patterns in financial development: evidence from club convergence
This article analyzes the degree of convergence of financial development for a panel of 50 countries. We apply the methodology of Phillips and Sul...
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Be productive or face decline. On the sources and determinants of output growth in Italian manufacturing firms
This article investigates the sources and determinants of output growth of Italian manufacturing firms. Applying stochastic frontier techniques, we...