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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Stochastic Frontier Analysis"”.

  1. A Normal Truncated Skewed-Laplace Model in Stochastic Frontier Analysis

    Wang, Junyi

    <p>Stochastic frontier analysis is an exciting method of economic production modeling that is relevant to hospitals, stock markets, manufacturing factories, and services. In this paper, we create a new model using the normal distribution and truncated skew-Laplace distribution, namely the …

    wku-diss Repository record

  2. Measurement and evaluation of managerial efficiency in English league football : a stochastic frontier analysis

    Dawson, Peter MichaelUniversity of Hull2000

    … we explore the growing literature on production frontier analysis. We are particularly interested in the available estimation procedures and how previous sports studies have utilised this framework in estimating efficiency. A discussion of the football industry is the focus of Chapter 3, while in …

    hull Repository record

  3. Measuring Efficiency for Egyptian Textile and Apparel Industry Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis

    Elatroush, Ibrahim MosaadCity University London2011

    … in the Egyptian textile and apparel industry via stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and data envelopment analysis (DEA). Differences between the SFA and the DEA can lead to different estimates for some, or all of the units in an analysis. Measuring efficiency through production process, (inputs …

    city-london Repository record

  4. How efficient are Kenyan hospitals? : an application of frontier analysis techniques

    Kiprono, Julie JemutaiThe Open University2016

    … level IV Kenyan hospitals using data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis. Panel data were collected from 27 public and faith-based hospitals between 2008 and 2012. Data envelopment analysis (DEA), a non-parametric approach and stochastic frontier analysis (SF A) a parametric …

    the-open-u Repository record

  5. Three empirical essays on mergers and regulation in the telecommunications industry

    Seo, DaigyoKansas State University2007

    … for 25 ILECs over the period 1996-2005 using stochastic frontier analysis with a time-varying inefficiency model. In addition, we conduct a comparison of indices between the stochastic frontier analysis and the Malmquist index method. The empirical results indicate that the sample of …

    ksu Repository record

  6. Private equity buyouts and firm efficiency: evidence from UK public to private transactions

    Miller, LloydUniversity of Greenwich2014

    … buyout dataset. I use data envelopment and stochastic frontier analysis techniques to empirically measure production efficiency, which differs from most previous studies where the impact of financial performance or the movement in a company’s share price is tested. For the sample used and …

    greenwich Repository record

  7. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIRM PRODUCTIVITY: INVESTIGATING THE IMPACTS OF SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE MODEL AND WORKER MOBILITY

    GE CHUNMIAN2014

    … to their traditional counterparts by using the Stochastic Frontier Analysis approach. The findings suggest SaaS firms have smaller economies of scale than traditional software firms. Study 2 examines the impacts of worker mobility on the productivity of IT firms. Using a novel structural …

    nus Repository record

  8. Three case studies on the impact of inequality on agricultural efficiency, productivity, and the adoption and intensity of use of climate-smart practices

    Borrero Camacho, Hernan AlejandroUniversity of Missouri--Columbia2024

    … of seventeen years (2005-2021), and implement a Stochastic Frontier Analysis methodology, finding a positive effect of inequality on technical inefficiency. In the second chapter, we use a sample of 299 transitory-crop farmers of the Peruvian highlands and two alternative empirical strategies: a …

    missouri Repository record

  9. Efficiency and financial sustainability of sugarcane Farmer Cooperatives in Eswatini

    Mnisi, KuhleGraduate School of Business (GSB)2019

    … The Kingdom of Eswatini from 2014 to 2017. The Stochastic Frontier Analysis technique, the Cobb-Douglas and the Translogarithm production functions were used to estimate technical efficiency scores. The results of the study showed that the sugarcane FCs are operationally self-sustainable, with …

    cape-town Repository record

  10. How Does Ontario Primary Care Perform? Effectiveness, Costs and Efficiency

    Laberge, Maude Pascale2015

    … health care costs. The third study employed a Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to assess the efficiency of physicians. The analyses were supported by survey data on a physician’s hours worked on direct patient care, duration of the visits and other characteristics of a physician’s practice …

    toronto-retro Repository record

  11. Efficiencies of small-scale sugarcane growers in the King Cetshwayo District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal

    Bulagi, Mushoni, BenedictUniversity of Zululand2019

    … studies have given more attention to SFA (Stochastic Frontier Analysis) and ranked constraints faced by small-scale sugarcane growers. The thesis analyses three methodological approaches to addressing the objectives of the thesis. The first objective was to analyse the technical, cost and …

    zulu Repository record

  12. Statistički model efikasnosti zasnovan na Ivanovićevom odstojanju

    Jeremić, VeljkoUniverzitet u Beogradu, Fakultet organizacionih nauka2012

    … analiza obavijanja podataka (Data Envelopment Analysis - DEA). DEA metodu su razvili Charnes, Cooper & Rhodes (1978), da bi merili efikasnost poslovanja organizacionih jedinica i to pre svega onih koje ne stvaraju profit. Tvorci analize obavijanja podataka su predložili neparametarski pristup …

    belgrade Repository record

  13. EFFECT OF FOREIGN PRESENCE ON DOMESTIC PERFORMANCE: THE CASES OF EDUCATION IN THE US AND MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN ETHIOPIA

    Abegaz, Melaku Teklea2016

    … export market entry and exit of local firms. Our analysis is based on the firm-level Ethiopian manufacturing survey data for the period 1996 - 2010. The results show that the backward and forward spillovers from foreign-owned exporting firms improve the probability of domestic firms to start …

    siu-theses Repository record

  14. A magyar bankrendszer makroprudenciális szempontból

    Hosszú, ZsuzsannaBudapesti Corvinus Egyetem2018

    … A banki hatékonyság megbecslését SFA (stochastic frontier analysis) és DEA (data envelopment analysis) modellek segítségével is elvégeztem, valamint profit- és költséghatékonyságot is számítottam a hitelezési veszteségek figyelembe vételével, illetve a nélkül. Eredményeim szerint …

    corvinus Repository record

  15. Performance of microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa: a cross country analysis of outreach, sustainability, efficiency and regulation

    Adams, AbdulaiUniversity of Zululand2017

    … aim of this study was to conduct a cross-country analysis of micro finance institutions (MFIs) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in terms of outreach, sustainability, efficiency and regulation. The specific objectives were: (1) To conduct a general institutional review on the performance of MFIs; (2) To …

    zulu Repository record

  16. An Empirical Analysis of Foreign Aid Heterogeneity According to Donors for Pakistan

    Abdiah, Suleman

    … data for Pakistan for the period 1972-2010. The stochastic frontier analysis was conducted using maximum likelihood estimation. The results determined that the aid from the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany tends to increase production efficiency of Pakistan. However on the contrary aid from Japan …

    siu-theses Repository record

  17. On Estimation of Efficiencies of Hospitals and Electric Power Plants

    Al-Qalawi, Usama Robin

    … A translog functional form is estimated using Stochastic Frontier analysis. Then we decompose productivity growth to its main components: the economic of scale effect, the technical progress effect and the change in inefficiency effect. The dissertation is divided to three main subjects. The …

    siu-theses Repository record

  18. Trade in Renewable Energy Commodities among Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Countries: An Exploratory Study

    Liu, Yichang2023

    … energy investments. It employs a two-step stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to investigate and decompose the technical efficiency of investments in renewable energy electricity generation capacity. By using panel data consisting of 14 countries from 2004 to 2019, it finds that the average …

    aus-cath Repository record

  19. Trade in Renewable Energy Commodities among Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Countries: An Exploratory Study

    Liu, Yichang2023

    … energy investments. It employs a two-step stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to investigate and decompose the technical efficiency of investments in renewable energy electricity generation capacity. By using panel data consisting of 14 countries from 2004 to 2019, it finds that the average …

    anu Repository record

  20. Efficiency, competition and risk-taking behaviour in the short-term insurance market in South Africa

    Alhassan, Abdul LatifResearch of GSB2016

    … techniques. The findings from the empirical analysis are summarized as follows: First, the results from the data envelopment analysis technique indicate that short-term insurers operate at about 50% of their productive capacity, with only 20% of insurers operating at an optimal scale. …

    cape-town Repository record

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