Search Results - subject:"Distance function"

A Bayesian approach to imposing curvature on distance functions

O'Donnell, Christopher J.; Coelli, Timothy J. - 2005

translog output distance function. Implementing the approach involves the use of a Gibbs sampler with data augmentation. A …

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Quality of Service, Efficiency and Scale in Network Industries: An analysis of European electricity distribution

Growitsch, Christian; Jamasb, Tooraj; Pollitt, Michael G - 2005

analysis (SFA) method on multi-output translog input distance function models to estimate cost and scale efficiency with and …

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Political Violence and Farm Household Efficiency in Colombia

Gonzalez, Maria A.; Lopez, Rigoberto A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

This paper estimates farm household levels of technical efficiency and their determinants in Colombia, with particular reference to political violence (i.e., guerilla fronts, assassinations, kidnappings, and displaced population). An input-oriented stochastic frontier is estimated simultaneously...

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Measurement of environmental efficiency and productivity: A cross country analysis

Kumar, Surender; Khanna, Madhu - National Institute of Public Finance and Policy - 2005

This paper measures environmental efficiency (EE) and environmental productivity (EP) and analyses differences in these across countries. It explores the macroeconomic factors that could explain these differences and whether these differences can be explained by income levels and by the degree...

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Quality of Service, Efficiency, and Scale in Network Industries: An Analysis of European Electricity Distribution

Growitsch, Christian; Jamasb, T.; Pollitt, M. - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 2005

-output translog input distance function models to estimate cost and scale efficiency with and without incorporating quality of service … economies, input distance function, sto- chastic frontier analysis. JEL: L15, L51, L94 …) method and multi-output translog input distance function models. The outline for the remainder of this paper is as follows …

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Return to Dollar, Generalized Distance Function and the Fisher Productivity Index

Zofío, José Luis; Prieto, Angel - Departamento de Análisis Económico: Teoría … - 2005

Exploring the duality between a return to dollar definition of profit and the generalized distance function we …

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An Analysis of Scope Economies and Technical Efficiency in Intensive Rainfed Lowland Rice-based Cropping Systems in Northwest Luzon, Philippines

Villano, Renato A.; Lucas, Marilou P.; Pandey, Sushil - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005

season. Using panel data from 100 randomly selected farmers, a stochastic input distance function is used to investigate …

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Parametric Decomposition of the Input-Oriented Malmquist Productivity Index: With an Application to Greek Aquaculture

Pantzios, Christos; Tzouvelekas, Vangelis; Karagiannis, … - Department of Economics, University of Crete - 2005

Using a stochastic frontier approach and a tranlog input distance function, this paper implements the input …

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Learning in Organic Farming An Application on Finnish Dairy Farms

Sipilainen, Timo; Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

Organic farming technology may be relatively unknown to farmers at the time when they switch from conventional into organic farming. Therefore, experience gained over time and learning by doing may be important determinants in the efficiency of organic farming. It may also take time to reach the...

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Analisis de la calidad de la leche en un modelo microeconomico multi-output: el papel de la genetica

Alvarez, Antonio; Arias, Carlos; Roibas, David - In: Economia Agraria y Recursos Naturales 05 (2005) 10

in which milk quality is included as an additional output in milk production. A distance function is used to estimate …

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