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Productivity Growth in China: Evidence from Chinese Provinces

Ao, Xiang; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - EconWPA - 2005

approaches are used to estimate the aggregate production technology: a fixed-effects model and a stochastic frontier model. Our …

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Generalized Moments Estimation for Spatial Panel Data: Indonesian Rice Farming

Druska, Viliam; Horrace, William C. - EconWPA - 2002

that extends the cross-sectional model of Kelejian and Prucha. This approach is applied in a stochastic frontier framework …

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On Ranking and Selection from Independent Truncated Normal Distributions

Horrace, William C. - EconWPA - 2003

. An application to a broad class of parametric stochastic frontier models is considered, where interest centers on making …

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Institutions and Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Perrin, Richard K.; Yu, Bingxin - EconWPA - 2005

-nonparametric Fourier production frontier. Over the four decades the estimated rate of productivity change was 0.83% per year, although the …

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Multiple-Output Production With Undesirable Outputs: An Application to Nitrogen Surplus in Agriculture

Fernandez, Carmen; Koop, Gary; Steel, Mark F.J. - EconWPA - 2002

generalization of a stochastic frontier model which is appropriate for such technologies. We discuss efficiency analysis and, in …

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Model Comparison of Coordinate-Free Multivariate Skewed Distributions with an Application to Stochastic Frontiers

Ferreira, Jose T.A.S.; Steel, Mark F.J. - EconWPA - 2004

We consider classes of multivariate distributions which can model skewness and are closed under orthogonal transformations. We review two classes of such distributions proposed in the literature and focus our attention on a particular, yet quite flexible, subclass of one of these classes....

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CAN FISCAL POLICY EXPLAIN TECHNICAL INEFFICIENCY OF PRIVATISED FIRMS? A PARAMETRIC AND NONPARAMETRIC APPROACH

Alfano, Maria Rosaria; D'Orio, Giovanni - EconWPA - 2005

techniques to calculate these frontier functions have been used, some of them parametric, others non-parametric to empirically … (Stochastic Frontier, Data Envelopment Analysis and Neural Network) are consistent. In fact, we see that privatization enhanced …

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Chinese Regional Agricultural Productivity in the 1990'a

Tong, Haizhi; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - EconWPA - 2005

A nonstochastic Malmquist Index and a stochastic frontier production function are estimated to examine agricultural … not evident in the stochastic frontier estimates. Both methods identify the same regions as the most productive. Variables …

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Heterogeneity and Aggregation in the Labor Market: Implications for Aggregate Preference Shifts

Chang, Yongsung; Kim, Sun-Bin - EconWPA - 2004

incomplete markets and indivisible labor generates an aggregation error that looks much like the preference residual in the data …

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Whose Inflation? A Characterization of the CPI Plutocratic Gap

Ley, Eduardo - EconWPA - 2001

Prais (1958) showed that the standard CPI computed by most statistical agencies can be interpreted as a weighted average of household price indexes, where the weight of each household is determined by its total expenditures. In this paper, we analytically decompose the difference between the...

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