Search Results - subject:"technical efficiency."

Caselli, Francesco - 2000

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The Malmquist Productivity Index and Plant Capacity Utilization

De Borger, Bruno L.; Kerstens, Kristiaan - 2000

utilization. Using a primal, non-parametric specification of technology, the Malmquist index is decomposed into technical … efficiency change, variations in plant capacity utilization and frontier shifts. It provides an alternative to the available …

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Sources of Output Growth in Singapore's Services Sector

Mahadevan, Renuka - 2000

growth into technological progress and changes in technical efficiency …

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Leasing Versus Selling and Firm Efficiency in Oligopoly

Saggi, Kamal; Bettas, Nikolaos - 2000

We examine sales and leasing of a durable good in an asymmetric duopoly. We find that inefficient firms tend to lease more. While the low cost firm sells more than the high cost firm, the high cost firm leases more. Further, an increase in unit costs implies a higher ratio of leased units to...

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Time Series Analysis of Deregulatory Dynamics and Technical Efficiency : The Case of the U.S. Airline Industry

Alam, Ila M. Semenick; Sickles, Robin C. - 2000

empirical relationship between technical efficiency and market forces compelling agents to economize. This article, taking an … time series of technical efficiency indices for cointegration and convergence. A panel of U.S. airlines, observed quarterly …

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Notes on Some Inequalities in Economics

Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna - 2000

Inequalities created by relating gauge (distance) functions and their dual support functions have been used in economics and operations research/management science to measure efficiency and productivity. The most familiar example is the Farrell (1957) measure of cost efficiency and its...

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Technical Change and the Structure of Informal Credit Markets in Philippine Agriculture

Floro, Sagrario L. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 1987

The role of informal credit markets in the promotion of new technology has become significant given the shortcomings of the formal credit sector. This paper examines the impact of technical change on the structure of informal credit markets in the Philippine rice and corn sectors. It also...

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Technical Change and the Structure of Informal Credit Markets in Philippine Agriculture

Floro, Sagrario L. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 1987

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Aggregation of Efficiency Indices

Blackorby, Charles; Russell, R. - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 12 (1999) 1, pp. 5-20

Measurement of technical efficiency is carried out at many levels of aggregation—at the individual branch, plant …

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Accounting for Environmental Influences in Stochastic Frontier Models: With Application to International Airlines

Coelli, Tim; Perelman, Sergio; Romano, Elliot - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 11 (1999) 3, pp. 251-273

efficiency (technical efficiency with environmental factors netted out) took place over the sample period (1977–1990). Copyright …The principal aim of this paper is to measure the efficiency of international airlines. We obtain measures of technical … efficiency from stochastic frontier production functions which have been adjusted to account for environmental influences such as …

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