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On the Use of Panel Data in Bayesian Stochastic Frontier Models

Fernández, C.; Osiewalski, J.; Steel, M.F.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1996

We consider a Bayesian analysis of the stochastic frontier model with composed error.Under a commonly used class of (partly) noninformative prior distributions, the existence of the posterior distribution and of posterior moments is examined.Viewing this model as a Normal linear regression model...

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Hospital efficiency analysis through individual effects : A Bayesian approach

Koop, G.; Osiewalski, J.; Steel, M.F.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1994

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The Determinants of VAT Introduction : A Spatial Duration Analysis

Cizek, Pavel; Lei, J.; Ligthart, J.E. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

Abstract: The spatial survival models typically impose frailties, which characterize unobserved heterogeneity, to be spatially correlated. This specification relies highly on a pre-determinate covariance structure of the errors. However, the spatial effect may not only exist in the unobserved...

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A Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Output Level and Growth in Poland and Western Economies

Osiewalski, J.; Koop, G.; Steel, M.F.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1997

methodology proposed in our earlier work, we also decompose output growth into technical, efficiency and input changes and examine …

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Debreu's Coefficient of Resource Utilization, the Solow Residual and TPF : The Connection by Leontief Preferences

ten Raa, Thijs - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

decomposition of productivity growth into technical change and efficiency change.The terms can now be broken down by sector as well …

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The Theory of Benchmarking and the Measurement of Industrial Organization

ten Raa, Thijs - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

efficiency change.In other words, the two well-known sources of productivity growth-technology and efficiency-can be augmented by … a third one, namely the industrial organization effect.In this paper the efficiency of an industrial organization and … its contribution to performance are measured by benchmarking all firms on the industry.More precisely, efficiency is …

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