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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"technical efficiency"”.
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Measuring technical efficiency in a fuzzy environment
… Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes (1978) to measure the technical efficiency performance of organizational units. Conventional DEA models assume input and output sets are deterministic. When input and output data are not known precisely, the decision maker may choose between three alternatives. The first …
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Determinants of bank technical efficiency: A South African study
… this study is to investigate the determinants of technical efficiency, using data envelopment analysis and the Tobit regression model, of the six largest listed South African banks for the years 2008-2018. An input-oriented intermediary constant-return-to-scale approach was followed to determine …
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Allocative and technical efficiency of traditional agriculture in northern Nigeria
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Migrant labor and farm technical efficiency: Empirical evidence from Lesotho
The study estimates and tests for differences in technical inefficiencies for farms with and without migrant workers in Lesotho. It also considers farm size and gender implications for inefficiencies. The stochastic production frontier and logit models are estimated using maximum likelihood …
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Fuzzy non-radial measures of relative technical efficiency using DEA
… data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the technical efficiency of organizational units. In DEA, these units are referred to as decision making units (DMUs). Deterministic input and output data are assumed when using conventional DEA models. Based on Carlsson and Korhonen's [6] fuzzy …
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FDI and Technical Efficiency in Manufacturing Firms: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
… of foreign direct investment (FDI) on firm’s technical efficiency. Unbalanced panel data over period of 1991-2003 shows that the existence of FDI has a significant impact on domestic firms’ technical efficiency. The results remain robust after controlling for country and year fixed effect. …
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Technical efficiency of Illinois grain farms and factors influencing its measurement
The purpose of this analysis is to examine the technical efficiency of Illinois grain farms and the factors which influence its measurement. The effects of applying a parametric versus a nonparametric estimation technique, modeling the frontier as deterministic or stochastic and using a single …
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Productivity, Cost, and Technical Efficiency Evaluation of Southeastern U.S. Logging Contractors
… logging industry was determined by measuring technical efficiency, and by analyzing the demographic, organizational, business, productivity and cost information with a variety of quality control tools. Data Envelopment Analysis, a non-parametric statistical tool, was used to measure the …
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Issues in technical efficiency measurement with an application to the domestic airline industry
This dissertation consists of three essays with technical efficiency as the focus. The first essay uniquely integrates three literatures: technical efficiency, comovement and convergence. Using a panel data set of eleven domestic airlines followed quarterly from 1970 to 1990, time series technical …
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Measuring technical efficiency in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector: a two-stage DEA Tobit approach
This paper measures and explains efficiency of firms in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector. The paper uses a panel of 166 firms from 6 subsectors of the manufacturing sector in the financial year 2014. The Data envelopment analysis program is used to measure efficiency and identify its determinants. …
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The Conditional Mode Estimator of Technical Efficiency: Theory and Application to NYC Public Schools
… frontier models and applies it to measure technical inefficiency. It consists of two chapters. The first chapter analyzes the conditional mode estimator's closed-form expressions, convergence, near-minimax optimality when interpreted using Lasso, and selection rules. The second chapter …
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The Conditional Mode Estimator Of Technical Efficiency: Theory And Application To Nyc Public Schools
… frontier models and applies it to measure technical inefficiency. It consists of two chapters. The first chapter analyzes the conditional mode estimator’s closed-form expressions, convergence, near-minimax optimality when interpreted using Lasso, and selection rules. The second chapter …
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Analysis Of Factors Affecting The Technical Efficiency Of Smallholder Dairy Farmers In Njombe District
… (NDC) with the overall objective of estimating Technical Efficiency (TE) and analyzing factors influencing Technical Inefficiency (TI) of smallholder dairy farmers. Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function in which the parameters for the production frontier and for the inefficiency …
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Social Capital Effects on Poverty and Technical Efficiency in Rural KwaZulu -Natal, South Africa
Although, many studies have documented that social capital works, how and why it works will greatly contribute to understanding how and when it can be used to influence development. This work will require collaborative efforts between economists, sociologists and/or anthropologists.
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Technical efficiency and technical progress in the Colombian metal-mechanical sector, 1977 and 1986
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Analysis of factors influencing the technical efficiency of smallholder maize farmers in northern province, Zambia
This study investigated the efficiency of smallholder farmers in Northern Province, Zambia. The research utilized data collected in 2014/2015, which was representative of the province and gathered by the Institute for Agricultural Policy Research Institute in collaboration with the Zambia …
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Exploring variations in the relative technical efficiency in providing school education: a case study of Sindh, Pakistan
… The purpose of my research is to analyze the efficiency of the education resources and their impact on education. The aim of this study is to explore Variations in Relative Technical Efficiency in providing School Education in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. The methodology of this study has …
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Access to irrigation technology and technical efficiency: a comparison of households with and without access to irrigation technology, in ‘Gorogutu district’, Eastern Ethiopia
… viable option in enhancing farm productivity and efficiency improvements. By integrating field observations, economic theory, and econometric analysis, this study assess the extent to which access to irrigation technology affects the level of technical efficiency in Gorogutu district of Eastern …
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Benchmarking Community Health Centers; Efficiency: Multivariate Analysis
… Improving healthcare organizational performance efficiency is paramount. It is an especially pressing need for CHCs' because they carry a disproportionate burden of caring for the uninsured within limited budgets. Prior studies suffer from conceptual and methodological limitations. A longitudinal …
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Performance and efficiency evaluation of logging contractors using data envelopment analysis
… coded and used to measure radial and non-radial technical efficiency for a sample of logging contractors. Firms were evaluated in regards to the efficiency with which they converted inputs—dollars of capital, consumables, and labor—into output— tons of wood. Overall, for the period between 1988 …
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