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Revisiting the quiet life hypothesis in banking using nonparametric techniques

Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna; Maudos, Joaquín; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 16 (2015) 1, pp. 159-187

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On Nonparametric Estimation: With a Focus on Agriculture

Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna; Pasurka, Carl; … - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 93-110

We review nonparametric estimation of efficiency and productivity, by which we mainly mean activity analysis, or data …

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The Effect of Unions on Productivity: U.S. Surface Mining of Coal

Byrnes, Patricia; Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna; … - In: Management Science 34 (1988) 9, pp. 1037-1053

a decomposition of productivity differentials into three components---differences in technical efficiency, differences … in scale efficiency, and differences in congestion. Identification of these three components provides an aid to …

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DEA, directional distance functions and positive, affine data transformation

Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna - In: Omega 41 (2013) 1, pp. 28-30

In this paper we take up the problem of positive, affine data translation within a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) framework.

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A postscript on aggregate Farrell efficiencies

Färe, Rolf; Karagiannis, Giannis - In: European Journal of Operational Research 233 (2014) 3, pp. 784-786

In this note we derive alternative weighting schemes that complement those of Färe and Zelenyuk (2003) for consistent aggregation of Farrell efficiencies when the technology exhibits (global) constant returns to scale.

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