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Cotton is one of the most important sector for developing countries, especially in Pakistan. In this paper the linear model based on data of 2004 to 2006 cotton yield is developed to maximize the cotton production of Pakistan. In this model variables are allowed to randomly vary with in interval...
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Output and input market distortions manifest as wedges in the firm's first order conditions. The production approach to markup estimation recovers the markup wedge using the output elasticity for a variable and undistorted input. We show that using the revenue elasticity for any variable input,...
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output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall … universities. Besides the amount of research grants and the absolute number of publications, the number of publications belonging …
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This paper provides a systematic review of the literature that employs stochastic frontier analysis to measure the efficiency of higher education institutions. The overview opens with a look at the general development of the literature, before emphasis is laid on the methodical aspects. Focus is...
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. Scale and research specialization in European universities : a directional distance approach to teaching efficiency / Andrea …
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This article investigates the efficiency of the university education using two linked databases (Saber Pro and Saber 11) from the Colombian Institute for Evaluation of Education (ICFES) corresponding to 2014. We use a non-parametric frontier approach that combines the "order m" technique with...
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dental care, (ii) productivity, technical efficiency and economies of scale in dental care production, and finally (iii …
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Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market … imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises … on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …
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