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Frontier estimation in nonparametric location-scale models

Florens, Jean-Pierre; Simar, Léopold; Van Keilegom, Ingrid - In: Journal of Econometrics 178 (2014) P3, pp. 456-470

Conditional efficiency captures efficiency of firms facing heterogeneous environmental conditions. Traditional approaches estimate nonparametrically conditional distribution requiring smoothing techniques. We rather use a flexible nonparametric location-scale model to eliminate the dependence of...

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Modeling the effect of competition on US manufacturing sectors' efficiency : an order-m frontier analysis

Polemis, Michael; Stengos, Thanasēs; Tzeremes, Nickolaos G. - In: Journal of productivity analysis : an official journal … 54 (2020) 1, pp. 27-41

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A DEA-based comprehensive benchmarking approach for implementing continuous improvement

Yu, Peng; Yoo, Bok Young; Lee, Jang Hee - In: Business process management journal 28 (2022) 3, pp. 740-764

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Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory

Huggins, Robert; Thompson, Piers - In: Small Business Economics 45 (2015) 1, pp. 103-128

Despite the growing acknowledgement that entrepreneurship is an important driver of regional innovation and growth, the … that the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth is governed by a series of network dynamics …. Drawing upon aspects of endogenous growth theory and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, it is proposed that …

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Directed technological change and factor shares

Hart, Rob - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 1, pp. 77-80

Directed technological change (DTC) concerns how stocks of factor-augmenting knowledge evolve relative to each other. We model investment in factor-augmenting knowledge at firm level, and show that relative investment rates depend on the relative factor shares and elasticities. Furthermore, we...

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Geographic Localization of International Technology Diffusion

Keller, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Convergence in per capita income across countries turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or local in a large class of models. This Paper estimates the amount of spillovers from R&D expenditures in major industrialized countries on a geographic basis. A new data set is...

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