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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA)"”.
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Measuring Efficiency for Egyptian Textile and Apparel Industry Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis
… 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 …
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How Does Ontario Primary Care Perform? Effectiveness, Costs and Efficiency
… 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 …
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Performance of microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa: a cross country analysis of outreach, sustainability, efficiency and regulation
… 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 …
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Trade in Renewable Energy Commodities among Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Countries: An Exploratory Study
… 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 …
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Trade in Renewable Energy Commodities among Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Countries: An Exploratory Study
… 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 …
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The role of human capital in the private manufacturing sector productivity in the developing and transition economies.
… changes, and different political conditions. The stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), as a fully parameterised model is used, in order to address and examine the determinants affecting production efficiencies, especially from a human capital point of view, and in the light of Vandenbussche, Aghion, …
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Efficiency and Restructuring in Regulated Energy Networks: Evidence from Germany and the US
… structure. Therefore, the application of DEA and SFA constitutes the heart of the whole study. These techniques are applied on German electricity DSOs as well as on data for US electricity DSOs and US gas TSOs. The application to US data can then be used to derive information about business …