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A Comparison of Stochastic Frontier Approaches to Estimating Inefficiency and Total Factor Productivity: An Application to Irish Dairy Farming

Carroll, James; Newman, Carol; Thorne, Fiona - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2007

This paper compares standard stochastic frontier models for panel data with a number of recently developed models designed to remove unobserved heterogeneity from the inefficiency component. Results are used to construct a generalised Malmquist total factor productivity (TFP) index. We conclude...

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Desbordamiento espacial de la productividad de las infraestructuras: una aplicación con fronteras estocásticas.

RODRÍGUEZ VÁLEZ, J.; ARIAS SAMPEDRO, C. - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 22 (2004) Diciembre, pp. 1-16

stochastic frontier allows for the modeling of regional heterogeneity though different degrees of regional efficiency …. Additionally, in the stochastic frontier framework it is possible to analyze the role of economic variables in regional efficiency …. A variable of particular interest for the explanation of efficiency is the ratio of public to private capital. We claim …

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Efficiency, Environmental Contaminants and Farm Size : Testing for Links Using Stochastic Production Frontiers

Hadri, Kaddour; Whittaker, Julie M. - 2004

This paper investigates whether there is any relationship between farm size, technical efficiency and the use of … for the years 1987-1991, we obtain an indication, that there is a positive relationship between technical efficiency and … use of contaminants, and between technical efficiency and farm size. However, there is a weak negative relationship …

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Farm Technology and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Four Regions in China

Chen, Zhuo; Huffman, Wallace; Rozelle, Scott - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2006

In this paper we fit stochastic frontier production functions to data for Chinese farms grouped into each of four regions

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An International Comparison of Productivity Change in Agriculture and the Economy as a Whole

Moutinho, Nuno; Machado, Fernado S. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2003

A common and longstanding assumption in the economic growth literature has been that total factor productivity growth is lower in the agriculture sector than in the rest of the economy. Using a stochastic production frontier finite mixture model, labor productivity change is decomposed into...

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A stochastic frontier approach to measuring regional technical efficiency in China

Yu, Yihua - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper applied a stochastic translog production function to examine the underlying causes of technical inefficiency for 28 provinces in the mainland China over the period 1970-2004. We found that inefficiency was present in production and several relevant explanatory variables contributed to...

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Size and Efficiency in African Manufacturing Firms:Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004

technology and the importance of technical and allocative efficiency. We show that the diversity of factor choices in not due to … differentials could be levelled out, substantial gains thorough improvements in allocative efficiency would be possible. …

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Are African manufacturing firms really inefficient? Evidence from firm-level panel data

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2001

technology and the importance of technical and allocative efficiency. We show that the diversity of factor choices is not due to … distortions could be removed substantial gains thorough improvements in allocative efficiency would be possible. …

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Size and efficiency in African manufacturing firms: Evidence from firm-level panel data

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2002

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Are African Manufacturing Firms Really Inefficient? Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

: their technology and the importance of technical and allocative efficiency. We show that the diversity of factor choices is … distortions could be removed substantial gains thorough improvements in allocative efficiency would be possible. …

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