schedule. Data analysis was done with the help of Stochastic Frontier Analysis; mainly Cobb-Douglas Production Function …, logistic regression model were employed. The Stochastic Production Frontier result revealed that the allocated amount of land …

A feature of the recent global slowdown in productivity growth is that progress at the technological frontier has … remained strong, while the gap between firms at the global frontier and other 'laggards' within an industry has grown. This … catch-up to the global frontier than they were previously. However, little is known about whether these patterns hold true …

frontier production function was fitted to predict the technical efficiency of onion-producing farmers. The mean of technical …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all parts of the distribution) from 1992-1994 to 1995-1997 and did not … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …

well as smoothing of the DEA frontier estimate. Both bootstrap procedures allow for dependence of the inefficiency process …

privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining … constant in the Czech Republic. Domestic firms closer to the frontier are not more likely to catch up than firms further from …

This paper proposes a general formulation of a nonparametric frontier model introducingexternal environmental factors …

a period of time. DEA is a frontier model which is non-parametric since no functional specification or form is required …

, presenting different trade-offs. Investors with an extensive track record continue to push the frontier expansion into natural …