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India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle: Insights From the Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of Calorie Purchases

Hazarika, Gautam; Paul, Sourabh Bikas - 2020

a novel application of Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis, to consumption instead of the more common production, in that …. Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis applied to calorie acquisition may be a new way of gauging changes over time in food security … Puzzle. It has been partially attributed to a squeeze in the household food budget. This study employs Stochastic Cost …

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India's calorie consumption puzzle: insights from the Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of calorie purchases

Hazarika, Gautam; Paul, Sourabh Bikas - 2020

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Property rights and the efficient extraction of common pool resources : evidence from West Coast groundfish

Evans, Keith; Lian, Carl E.; Weninger, Quinn R. - 2019

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X-efficiency and economies of scale in pension fund administration and investment

Alserda, Gosse; Bikker, Jacob A.; Lecq, Fieke van der - 2017

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Exploring the potential and performance of maize production in Bangladesh

Rahman, Sanzidur; Rahman, Md. Sayedur - In: International Journal of Agricultural Management 03 (2014) 2

Maize is gaining importance in recent years as a promising crop aimed at boosting agricultural growth in Bangladesh. The present study explores the potential of maize expansion by examining its profitability and economic efficiency using a survey data of 300 farmers from three regions. Maize...

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Cost Efficiency of Dairy Farming in New Zealand: a stochastic frontier analysis

Jiang, Nan; Sharp, Basil - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013

Historically NZ dairy farming has held a position as the lowest cost, non-subsidized producers at the farm gate. Recently, this position has been eroded as a result of increases in labor and land costs, while other emerging countries, such as Argentina and Ukraine, have adopted lower cost...

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Stochastic Cost Inefficiency Estimates and Rankings of Public and Private Research and Doctoral Granting Universities

Sav, G. Thomas - In: Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and … 2 (2012) 3, pp. 13-13

Stochastic frontier cost and inefficiency estimates are provided for research and doctoral granting universities in the years, 2005-2009, is used to estimate underlying cost structures. Inefficiency is modeled as depending on institutionally specific environmental factors. Results indicate that...

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Is The Production of Religious Knowledge Efficient? Managing Faith Related Postsecondary Institutions

SAV, G. Thomas - In: Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and … 2 (2012) 1, pp. 12-12

institutions. Panel data is used to estimate a stochastic cost frontier and associated inefficiencies for a panel of 222 U.S. bible …

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The Influence of Changes in the Market Environment on Economic Production Characteristics of Pangasius Farming in the Mekong Delta (Vietnam)

Binh, Tu Van; D'Haese, Marijke F.C.; Speelman, Stijn; … - 2010

article we use a stochastic cost frontier model to assess the adaptability of the sector. We are particularly interested in …

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Cost efficiency and subsidization in German local public bus transit

Nieswand, Maria; Walter, Matthias - 2010

Subsidies are considered important means to facilitate the provision of public transit, yet the empirical evidence implies that they can have harming effects on costs and possibly also on operators' performance. This paper examines the impacts of deficit-balancing subsidies on the cost...

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