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Medicion de la capacidad de pesca de la flota de voraz del Estrecho de Gibralta: enfoques parametricos y no parametricos
Castilla Espino, David; Hoyo, Garcia del; Jose, Juan - In: Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros (2006) 210
variable productive inputs in a standard DEA linear problem to determine fishing capacity and observed capacity utilization in … a first stage. A standard DEA linear program is run in a second stage to determine efficient capacity utilization … in the paper to measure fishing capacity and capacity utilization. The first procedure estimates an SFA model without …
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Technical efficiency and productivity analysis of the Italian prison system: a methodological comparison
Cesaroni, Giovanni; Lamberti, Aldo - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 15 (2014) 4, pp. 329-350
. Methodological analysis of the differences in their estimated results seems to argue in favour of the data envelopment models (DEA …
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Regulatory Reform and Productivity Change in Indian Banking
Casu, Barbara; Ferrari, Alessandra; Zhao, Tianshu - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 3, pp. 1066-1077
This paper examines the impact of regulatory reform on productivity growth and its components for Indian banks from 1992 to 2009. We estimate parametric and nonparametric efficiency frontiers, followed by Divisia and Malmquist indexes of total factor productivity, respectively. To account for...
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An assessment of the waste effects of corruption on infrastructure provision
Castro, Massimo Finocchiaro; Guccio, Calogero; Rizzo, Ilde - In: International Tax and Public Finance 21 (2014) 4, pp. 813-843
. We, first, estimate efficiency in public contracts’ execution using a smoothed DEA bootstrap procedure that ensures …
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Fiscal space for health in Sub-Saharan African countries: an efficiency approach
Novignon, Jacob; Nonvignon, Justice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
efficiency was 0.10% and 0.75% of GDP per capita in the DEA and SFA models, respectively. The results also showed that a 1 …
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Efficiency of public transport system in Tunisia: DEA-SFA approach
Ayadi, Ahmed; Hammami, Sami - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 9 (2015) 3, pp. 316-336
The purpose of this paper is to study the cost efficiency of the Tunisian public transport industry, using the deterministic and stochastic method to compare the parametric approach and the non-parametric one. This analysis is conducted on the basis of 12 regional transport companies (RTC)...
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History lessons
Cooper, W.; Lovell, C. - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 36 (2011) 2, pp. 193-200
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On the Estimation Stability of Efficiency and Economies of Scale in Microfinance Institutions
Bolli, Thomas; Thi, Anh Vo - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2012
strategies of cost efficiency and economies of scale. Concretely, we contrast the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA …) with the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and a distribution-free identification based on timeinvariant heterogeneity …
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Evaluation of Islamic banking performance: On the current use of econometric models
Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Islamic banks. It is restricted to studies using parametric (SFA) and non-parametric (DEA) models. It finds that they leave …
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Measuring efficiency of Islamic banks: criteria, methods, and social priorities
Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Islamic banks. It is restricted to studies using parametric (SFA) and non-parametric (DEA) models. It finds that they leave …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619583