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The impact of airport competition on technical efficiency: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis applied to Italian airports

Scotti, Davide; Malighetti, Paolo; Martini, Gianmaria; … - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, Università … - 2010

We investigate how the intensity of competition among airports affects their technical efficiency by computing airports’ markets on the basis of a potential demand approach. We find that the intensity of competition has a negative impact on airports’ efficiency in Italy during the...

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Who leads Research Productivity Change? Guidelines for R&D policy makers

Jiménez-Sáez, Fernando; Zabala, Jon Mikel; Zofío, … - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2010

Relying on efficiency analysis we evaluate to what extent policy makers have been able to promote the establishment of consolidated and comprehensive research groups to contribute to the implementation of a successful innovation system for the Spanish food technology sector, oriented to the...

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Efficiency Effects of Quality of Service and Environmental Factors: Experience from Norwegian Electricity Distribution

Growitsch, C.; Jamasb, T.; Wetzel, H. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2010

Since the 1990s, efficiency and benchmarking analysis has increasingly been used in network utilities research and regulation. A recurrent concern is the effect of environmental factors that are beyond the influence of firms (observable heterogeneity) and factors that are not identifiable...

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Environmental efficiency of small farms in selected EU NMS

Suta, Cornelia Madalina; Bailey, Alastair; Davidova, Sophia - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

technical efficiency scores are calculated using hyperbolic distance function approach. The results indicate there is a negative …

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Exploring the Role of Managerial Ability in Influencing Dairy Farm Efficiency

Byma, Justin P.; Tauer, Loren W. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 39 (2010) 3

This paper explores the role of managerial ability in determining efficiency in New York dairy farms. Using an unbalanced panel of farm data from 1993 through 2004, we estimate output-oriented technical efficiencies using stochastic distance frontier functions. We find that both lagged net farm...

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Uncovering Productivity Growth in the Disaggregate: Indonesia's Dueling Agricultural Sub-Sectors

Rada, Nicholas E.; Buccola, Steven T.; Fuglie, Keith O. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

The success of seed-fertilizer technologies and government subsidies in attaining nearly self-sufficient rice production in the mid-1980s encouraged the Indonesian government soon afterward to shift resources away from food crops and toward export-oriented crops. These shifts were reinforced by...

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Estimating China’s Energy and Environmental Productivity Efficiency: A Parametric Hyperbolic Distance Function Approach

Zhang, Zibin; Jin, Xiangrong; Dong, Xuebing; Wetzstein, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

distance function approach with a translog specification. This procedure provides the flexibility of using energy, labor, and … production frontier and environmental productivity efficiency are estimated for each province. The hyperbolic distance function … provinces. With a panel data of 29 provinces in China from 2000-2007, the hyperbolic distance function allows us to measure …

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The efficiency of German public theaters: a stochastic frontier analysis approach

Last, Anne-Kathrin; Wetzel, Heike - 2009

In recent years the economic performance of public non-profit sectors such as cultural services has become an interesting economic issue. This is due to the high dependence of cultural institutions on public funding on the one hand and the increasing cost-pressure on public budgets on the other...

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A sequential Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index

Oh, Donghyun; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

directional distance function and the concept of the successive sequential production possibility set are combined. With this …

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The effects of stochastic demand and expense preference behaviour on public hospital costs and excess capacity

Lovell, C.A. Knox; Rodriguez-Alvarez, Ana; Wall, Alan - 2009

The literature to date on the effect of demand uncertainty on public hospital costs and excess capacity has not taken into account the role of expense preference behaviour. Similarly, the research on expense preference behaviour has not taken demand uncertainty into account. In this paper, we...

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