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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"frontier analysis"”.
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A Normal Truncated Skewed-Laplace Model in Stochastic Frontier Analysis
<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 …
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How efficient are Kenyan hospitals? : an application of frontier analysis techniques
… 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 …
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United States Meat Goat Production Economic Performance Measures: A Stochastic Production Frontier Analysis
… production via the internet for this efficiency analysis was conducted. Costs and returns data for 2011 expenses from those meat goat producers were collected. This survey was a follow-up to an earlier survey that focused on the marketing, technology, farmer attitudes and farm/farmer …
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Measurement and evaluation of managerial efficiency in English league football : a stochastic frontier analysis
… 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 …
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Measuring Efficiency for Egyptian Textile and Apparel Industry Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis
… 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 and outputs), …
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Using DEA to profile in-hospital surgeon services: A South African funder perspective
… techniques; however, currently the use of frontier analysis is absent. This study explores the use of the non - parametric frontier analysis technique called Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for the profiling of physicians in South Africa. This is investigated by following a DEA profiling …
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Three empirical essays on mergers and regulation in the telecommunications industry
… 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 telecommunications …
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Private equity buyouts and firm efficiency: evidence from UK public to private transactions
… 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 period …
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIRM PRODUCTIVITY: INVESTIGATING THE IMPACTS OF SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE MODEL AND WORKER MOBILITY
… 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 approach with …
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Three case studies on the impact of inequality on agricultural efficiency, productivity, and the adoption and intensity of use of climate-smart practices
… 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 dynamic …
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The Effect of Operational Control Quality on Operational Efficiency and Cost of Capital: Evidence from U.S. Bank Holding Companies
… find that operational efficiency, derived from a frontier analysis, is significantly higher among banks with higher operational control quality. Second, I find that banks with stronger operational controls are associated with lower costs of debt and equity capital. These results are incremental to …
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Efficiency and financial sustainability of sugarcane Farmer Cooperatives in Eswatini
… 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 an average …
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How Does Ontario Primary Care Perform? Effectiveness, Costs and Efficiency
… 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 and linked to …
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Efficiencies of small-scale sugarcane growers in the King Cetshwayo District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal
… 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 allocative …
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Embedded Software-Defined Radio Architectures for 6G Cellular Networks
… and presents a quantitative performance analysis of over 2 million distinct SDR architectures that could be used in 6G communication networks. It does so by defining the key system architectural decisions and their options, including the data converters, filters, mixer and amplifier …
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Heterogeneous Decision-Making in Socio-Technical Systems Methodologies for Efficiency Measurement and Decision Analysis with Mixed Data
… methodological innovations in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Traditional DEA models, while robust in assessing relative efficiency across multiple inputs and outputs, implicitly assume homogeneity among decision-making units (DMUs) and precise, ratio-scaled data. These assumptions fall short …
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Financial sustainability of public Higher Education Institutions in Uzbekistan
… models.In this study, a stochastic cost frontier analysis is used in order to examine whether the institutional fiscal resources obtained mostly from tuition have been utilised efficiently or inefficiently at public HEIs in Uzbekistan during the period of 2000 to 2013. The Battese and …
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Statistički model efikasnosti zasnovan na Ivanovićevom odstojanju
… 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 …
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EFFECT OF FOREIGN PRESENCE ON DOMESTIC PERFORMANCE: THE CASES OF EDUCATION IN THE US AND MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN ETHIOPIA
… 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 …
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A magyar bankrendszer makroprudenciális szempontból
… 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 …
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