Search Results - subject:"metafrontier"

Is energy intensity important for the productivity growth of EET adopters?

Kounetas, Konstantinos; Mourtos, Ioannis; Tsekouras, … - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) 4, pp. 930-941

EET in varying time intervals through a metafrontier-based framework, while also decomposing that impact in terms of …

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Measuring the efficiency of highway maintenance contracting strategies: A bootstrapped non-parametric meta-frontier approach

Fallah-Fini, Saeideh; Triantis, Konstantinos; la Garza, … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 219 (2012) 1, pp. 134-145

one of the innovative initiatives in response to such a need. This paper adapts the non-parametric meta-frontier framework …’s Interstate highways maintained via a Public Private Partnership using a performance-based maintenance approach. The meta-frontier …

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Incorporating risk input into the analysis of bank productivity: Application to the Taiwanese banking industry

Chen, Ku-Hsieh - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 36 (2012) 7, pp. 1911-1927

an input-oriented generalized metafrontier Malmquist productivity index (I-gMMPI), while considering the latent effect of …

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Analysis of the Efficiency of Spanish Soccer League Players (2009/10) Using the Metafrontier Approach/Análisis de la Eficiencia de los Jugadores de fútbol de la Liga Española (2009...

CABALLERO FERNÁNDEZ, RAFAEL; GÓMEZ NÚÑEZ, TRINIDAD; … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 30 (2012) Agosto, pp. 565-578

metafrontier version of data envelopment analysis (DEA) methodology. It is possible to apply a metafrontier approach if separate …

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Efficiency, productivity and technology comparison for farms in Central and Western Europe: The case of field crop and dairy farming in Hungary and France

Latruffe, Laure; Fogarasi, József; Desjeux, Yann - In: Economic Systems 36 (2012) 2, pp. 264-278

) approach under each country's respective frontier and under a metafrontier. …

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A metafrontier production function for estimation of technical efficiencies and technology gaps for firms operating under different technologies

Battese, George E.; Rao, D. S. Prasada; O'Donnell, … - 2004

This paper presents a metafrontier production function model for firms in different groups having different … technologies. The metafrontier model enables the calculation of comparable technical efficiencies for firms operating under … relative to the potential technology available to the industry as a whole. The metafrontier model is applied in the analysis of …

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The Operational Efficiencies of the Hotel and Guesthouse Business in Thailand

Untong, Akarapong; Khureathai, Phanin; Kaosa-ard, Mingsarn - In: Applied Economics Journal 18 (2011) 1, pp. 44-63

meta-frontier analysis is applied to evaluate the efficiency scores of 1,799 samples of hotels and guesthouses in year 2007 …

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Technology Gap, Catching-up and Outward Orientation: Analysis of 63 countries

IYER, Kris - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 11 (2011) 2

This paper examines the determinants of technological catching-up across 63 countries over the period 1982-2000 using a two staged approach. In the first stage, a measure of the technology gap between countries and the global technology frontier is computed. A positive growth of this measure is...

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Technical Efficiency Estimation via Metafrontier Technique with Factors that Affect Supply Chain Operations

El-Atroush, Ibrahim Mosaad; Montes-Rojas, Gabriel - In: International Journal of Business and Economics 10 (2011) 2, pp. 117-138

This paper presents a metafrontier production function and investigates factors that affect textile and apparel supply …

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A cross-country comparison of productivity growth using the generalised metafrontier Malmquist productivity index: with application to banking industries in Taiwan and China

Chen, Ku-Hsieh; Yang, Hao-Yen - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 35 (2011) 3, pp. 197-212

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