Search Results - subject:"Distance function"

Returns to scale, productivity and efficiency in US banking (1989-2000): the neural distance function revisited

Michaelides, Panayotis G.; Vouldis, Angelos T.; … - Bank of Greece - 2011

globally flexible functional form which is capable of approximating any existing output distance function while enabling the a … estimated the so-called Neural Distance Function (NDF) which has numerous advantages when compared to widely adopted …

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Data normalization for data envelopment analysis and its application to directional distance function

Cheng, Gang; Qian, Zhenhua - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Directional distance function is the generalization of radial model in data envelopment analysis. It has the capacity … unit-invariant efficiency measure for directional distance function is developed based on DEA data normalization. …

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Technical Efficiency, Environment Efficiency, Productivity and Beneficial Management Practices

Lota, Tamini D.; Bruno, Larue; West, Gale E. - Structure and Performance of Agriculture and … - 2011

An input distance function (IDF) is estimated to empirically evaluate and analyze the technical and environmental …

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Brazilian Agricultural Productivity and Policy

Rada, Nicholas E.; Buccola, Steven T. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

Replaced with revised version of poster 07/29/11.

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Productivity and performance of Finnish and Norwegian dairy farms : does EU membership matter?

Sipiläinen, Timo; Lien, Gudbrand; Kumbhakar, Subal; … - 2011 - Preliminary version

Dairy production has long been the most important production line in Finnish and Norwegian agriculture. Prior to Finland joining the EU, farm structure as well as national agricultural policy was very similar in the two countries. In this paper, we explore development and differences in...

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Mutual fund efficiency and tradeoffs in the production of risk and return

Devaney, Michael; Morillon, Thibaut; Weber, William - In: Managerial Finance 42 (2016) 3, pp. 225-243

directional output distance function is used to estimate mutual fund performance. The method allows the data to define a frontier … twice-differentiable quadratic directional distance function to measure the managerial performance and risk/return tradeoff …

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Pricing nonmarketed outputs with an application to community colleges

Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna; Weber, William L. - In: Public finance review : PFR 44 (2016) 2, pp. 197-219

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Large courts, small justice! : the inefficiency and the optimal structure of the Italian justice sector

Peyrache, Antonio; Zago, Angelo M. - In: Omega : the international journal of management science 64 (2016), pp. 42-56

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Marginal abatement costs of greenhouse gas emissions : broadacre farming in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia

Tang, Kai; Hailu, Atakelty; Kragt, Marit E.; Ma, Chunbo - In: The Australian journal of agricultural and resource … 60 (2016) 3, pp. 459-475

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Multi-output profit efficiency and directional distance functions

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Walheer, Barnabé - In: Omega : the international journal of management science 61 (2016), pp. 100-109

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