Search Results - subject:"Distance function"

Does school ownership matter? An unbiased efficiency comparison for regions of Spain

Crespo-Cebada, Eva; Pedraja-Chaparro, Francisco; … - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 41 (2014) 1, pp. 153-172

-selection problem, we use a stochastic parametric distance function framework to compare student efficiency and productivity in both …

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Efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants: a non-parametric approach

Rødseth, Kenneth - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 42 (2014) 2, pp. 211-223

This paper treats efficiency measurement when some outputs are undesirable and producers control pollutants by end-of-pipe or change-in-process abatement. A data envelopment analysis framework that compares producers with similar pollution control efforts is proposed. First, my approach avoids...

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Decomposing the change in profit of Taiwanese banks: incorporating risk

Juo, Jia-Ching - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 41 (2014) 2, pp. 247-262

(EGLA) model that is based on the OGLA model and incorporates NPL, and (3) the directional distance function (DDF) model …

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Drivers explaining the inefficiency of Peruvian and Chilean ports terminals

Chang, Víctor; Tovar, Beatriz - In: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and … 67 (2014) C, pp. 190-203

We measure technical efficiency of port terminals in Peru and Chile to evaluate the influence of certain specific explanatory variables that may contribute to reducing inefficiency; one of them is the structural reform that was implemented in the 1990s in both countries. Chilean terminals were...

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Evaluating the impact of individual fishing quotas (IFQs) on the technical efficiency and composition of the US Gulf of Mexico red snapper commercial fishing fleet

Solís, Daniel; del Corral, Julio; Perruso, Larry; … - In: Food Policy 46 (2014) C, pp. 74-83

This study examines the impact of individual fishing quotas (IFQs) on the technical efficiency (TE) and composition of the Gulf of Mexico red snapper commercial fishing fleet. Employing a parametric stochastic distance frontier framework we find that IFQs improved the TE of the vertical line and...

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Public sector transparency and countries’ environmental performance: A nonparametric analysis

Halkos, George E.; Tzeremes, Nickolaos G. - In: Resource and Energy Economics 38 (2014) C, pp. 19-37

distance function models, we incorporate on the measurement of countries’ environmental performance the effect of their public …

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TWO-STAGE EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT AND TECHNOLOGICAL HETEROGENEITY: EVIDENCE FROM THE BIOTECHNOLOGICAL INDUSTRY IN TAIWAN

LU, YUNG-HSIANG; CHIU, YUNG-HO; CHIU, CHING-REN; HUNG, … - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR) 31 (2014) 01, pp. 1450007-1

during the period 2006 to 2008 by adopting the two-stage directional distance function and the meta-frontier concept. It …

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Telecommunications reform and efficiency performance: Do good institutions matter?

Mohamad, Noorihsan - In: Telecommunications Policy 38 (2014) 1, pp. 49-65

reform. This study uses the stochastic distance function approach to capture the role of institutions in explaining …

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Reducing CO 2 emissions of Japanese thermal power companies : a directional output distance function approach

Matsushita, Kyohei; Asano, Kota - In: Environmental economics and policy studies 16 (2014) 1, pp. 1-19

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Efficiency measurement of Chinese airports with flight delays by directional distance function

Fan, L. W.; Wu, F.; Zhou, P. - In: Journal of air transport management 34 (2014), pp. 140-145

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