Search Results - subject:"Stochastic Frontier Approach"

On the Backwardness in Macroeconomic Performance of European Socialist Economies

Weill, Laurent - Laboratoire de Recherche en Gestion (LaRGE), Institut … - 2004

macroeconomic performance with two frontier efficiency techniques: the stochastic frontier approach, and the time-varying WITHIN …

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THE X-EFFICIENCY OF THE SUDANESE ISLAMIC BANKS

Saaid, Abd elrhman Elzahi; Rosly, Saiful Azhar; … - In: IIUM Journal of Economics and Management 11 (2003) 2, pp. 123-141

study investigates the X-efficiency (technical and allocative) of these banks. The study used the basic Stochastic Frontier … Approach (SFA). This is accomplished by decomposing the error term into two components, namely random noise (vi) and possible …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602573

Bank Efficiency in Transitional Countries: Sensitivity to Stochastic Frontier Design

Irsova, Zuzana; Havranek, Tomas - In: Transition Studies Review 18 (2011) 2, pp. 230-270

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The impacts of country characteristics upon the value of information technology as measured by productive efficiency

Lin, Winston T.; Chiang, Chung-Yean - In: International Journal of Production Economics 132 (2011) 1, pp. 13-33

Based on the theory of production, this paper investigates information technology (IT) contribution at a country level by linking it to the complementarity/substitutability phenomena created by the joint presence of IT and the five selected national characteristics. It negates the relationship...

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Cost and profit efficiency of conventional and Islamic banks in GCC countries

Srairi, Samir - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 34 (2010) 1, pp. 45-62

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Bank Efficiency and Macro-economic Factors: The Case of Developing Countries

Chan, Sok-Gee; Karim, Mohd Zaini Abd - In: Global Economic Review 39 (2010) 3, pp. 269-289

/North Africa, and Africa. To achieve the objective, the stochastic frontier approach (SFA) was used to simultaneously estimate the …

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Cost efficiency analysis in banking industries of ten Asian countries and regions

Shen, Zhi; Liao, Hailin; Weyman-Jones, Thomas - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 7 (2009) 2, pp. 199-218

Despite the great achievement of three decades of economic reform, the Chinese banking sector takes the blame for its dysfunctional system, especially the large amount of non-performing loans. The ease of foreign banks' entry set by the WTO from December 2007 raises our concern of the capability...

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Technical inefficiency and public capital in US States: A stochastic frontier approach

Puig, Jaume - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

This paper estimates a translog stochastic frontier production function in the analysis of all 48 contiguous U.S. states in the period 1970-1983, to attempt to measure and explain changes in technical efficiency. The model allows technical inefficiency to vary over time, and inefficiency effects...

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Measuring and explaining farm inefficiency in a panel data set of mixed farms

Puig, Jaume; Argilés, Josep M. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

This paper aims to estimate a translog stochastic frontier production function in the analysis of a panel of 150 mixed Catalan farms in the period 1989-1993, in order to attempt to measure and explain variation in technical inefficiency scores with a one-stage approach. The model uses gross...

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On the inefficiency of European socialist economies

Weill, Laurent - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 29 (2008) 2, pp. 79-89

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