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Efficiency of Large Scale Manufacturing in Pakistan : A Production Frontier Approach

Mahmood, Tariq; Ghani, Ejaz; Din, Musleh-ud - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

This paper examines the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan using the stochastic production frontier approach. A stochastic production frontier is estimated for two periods1995-96 and 2000-01for 101 industries at the 5-digit PSIC. The results show that there has been...

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Risk-return Efficiency, Financial Distress Risk, and Bank Financial Strength Ratings

Hua, Changchun; Liu, Li-Gang - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

This paper investigates whether there is any consistency between banks financial strength ratings (bank rating) and their risk-return profiles. It is expected that banks with high ratings tend to earn high expected returns for the risks they assume and thereby have a low probability of...

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Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants in Gansu, West China

Sun, Sizhong - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

technically efficient on average than non-resource-based firms; second, foreign investment is beneficial to the improvement of …

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Technical Efficiency in Agricultural Production and Its Determinants : An Exploratory Study at the District Level

Shanmugam, K. R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

Given the importance of agriculture to the well being of a large percentage of Indias population, it becomes important to study how improvements can be made in the productivity of this sector. This study attempts to estimate the technical efficiency a measure of how well inputs are being used...

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Spatial-Temporal Dimensions of Efficiency among Electric Cooperatives in the Philippines

Lavado, Rouselle F.; Barrios, Erniel B. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

The efficiency of 119 electric cooperatives in the Philippines from 1990-2002 is analyzed using a stochastic frontier model augmented with spatial-temporal terms, addressing the underestimation of technical efficiency usually encountered among maximum-likelihood based methods. The model is also...

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Sources of Output Growth in Indian Agriculture during the Post-Reform Period

Shanmugam, K.R.; Soundararajan, Vidhya - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

without increasing inputs.We found that inmost of the states, growth was only due to higher inputs. Investment in extension … services along with sustained investment in agricultural research and development, and infrastructure is the need of the hour …

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Spatial Stochastic Frontier Models

Barrios, Erniel B.; Lavado, Rouselle F. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 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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Health, Technical Efficiency And Agricultural Production In Indian Districts

Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; Shanmugam, K.R.; Ruger, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

In this study, we attempt to quantify the effect of improved population health on technical efficiency in agricultural production. Using data for over 260 districts in 15 Indian states, we employ the random-coefficients technique to estimate a Cobb-Douglas production function, computing overall...

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Prospects for Regional Cooperation between Latin America and the Caribbean Region and the Asia and Pacific Region : Perspective from East Asia

Medalla, Erlinda M.; Balboa, Jenny D. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

possibility of closing such gaps and linking the two regions through various trade and investment initiatives. The opportunities …

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Investment Provisions in Regional Trading Arrangements in Asia : Relevance, Emerging Trends, and Policy Implications

Kumar, Nagesh - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

This paper summarizes the conceptual rationale for investment liberalization to fully exploit the potential of regional … trading arrangements. It goes on to examine the treatment of investment in emerging FTAs/RTAs in the Asia-Pacific region and … the specific investment provisions and their consistency with the existing multilateral provisions on investment, viz …

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