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Are EU Candidate Countries Ready for the Single Market? Comparing Performance with an EU Benchmark

De Loecker, Jan - 2002

The process of the East-West integration has come to a point that enlargement appears inevitable. But are these countries really ready to join the EU in tfirms of competitive perfirmance? Firstly, we construct a virtual best practice production frontier for firms active in a European Union...

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Spatial Stochastic Frontier Models

Lavado, Rouselle F.; Barrios, Erniel B. - 2010

The stochastic frontier model with heterogeneous technical efficiency explained by exogenous variables is augmented with a sparse spatial autoregressive component for a cross-section data, and a spatial-temporal component for a panel data. An estimation procedure that takes advantage of the...

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Technical and structural efficiency in Mexican manufacturing: A regional approach

Chávez, Juan Carlos; Fonseca, Felipe J. - 2012

This paper applies a stochastic frontier approach to analyze the evolution of technical efficiency in manufacturing as a source of regional growth, taking as a unit of analysis the Mexican states in the period 1988-2008. The main findings of our analysis are threefold. First, technical...

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Labour productivity and rice production in Bangladesh

Selim, Sheikh - 2010

In this paper we examine the significance of labour productivity and use of inputs in explaining technical efficiency of rice production in Bangladesh. We find that higher labour productivity can stimulate high efficiency gains, but increased use of inputs (except land) induces negative marginal...

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The Matching Efficiency of Regional Labour Markets A Stochastic Production Frontier Estimation, France 1990-1995

Ibourk, Aomar; Maillard, Bénédicte; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2001

We evaluate the determinants of matching efficiency changes through a stochastic Cobb- Douglas production frontier model extended to allow the efficiency coefficient to depend on variables meant to capture workers and firms characteristics. We apply this methodology to examine regional...

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Stochastic frontier analysis by means of maximum likelihood and the method of moments

Behr, Andreas; Tente, Sebastian - 2008

individual efficiency scores. The basic idea lies in the introduction of an additive error term consisting of a noise and an … not strongly dominating noise (Coelli, 1995). In this paper we provide detailed simulation results comparing the two …

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“Wrong” skewness and endogenous regressors in stochastic frontier models: an instrument-free copula approach with an application to estimate firm efficiency in Vietnam

Haschka, Rouven E. - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 62 (2024) 1, pp. 71-90

competition in the market. Moreover, endogeneity of model regressors presents another challenge, hindering the identification of … copulas to model the dependence between endogenous regressors and composite errors, while accommodating positively or … negatively skewed inefficiency through simultaneous identification. Monte Carlo simulation experiments demonstrate the …

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European railway deregulation: the influence of regulatory and environmental conditions on efficiency

Wetzel, Heike - 2008

The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of regulatory and environmental conditions on technical efficiency of European railways. Using a panel data set of 31 railway firms from 22 European countries from 1994 to 2005, a multioutput distance function model, including regulatory and...

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When, where and how to perform efficiency estimation

Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2011

the variation in noise. These results should be a valuable resource to both academic researchers and practitioners. …

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Stochastic frontier models with dependent errors based on normal and exponential margins

Gómez-Déniz, Emilio; Pérez-Rodríguez, Jorge V. - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 23 (2017), pp. 3-23

the normal-exponential distribution with dependence. Accordingly, the main aim of the present paper is to enhance …

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