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Finance, Ownership, Executive Remuneration, and Technical Efficiency: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) of Thai Listed Manufacturing Enterprises
Amornkitvikai, Yot; Harvie, Charles - 2011
This study employs a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to predict the technical efficiency of Thai listed manufacturing enterprises, using unbalanced panel data for 178 enterprises covering the years 2000 to 2008. The empirical findings indicate that these enterprises have been operating under...
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Micro Gains From Micro Reform
Quiggin, John - 1998
Large estimates of the benefits of microeconomic reform have been put forward in official studies. By contrast, Quiggin (1997) concludes that benefits of microeconomic reforms have been modest. A key area of disagreement relates to the claim that increased competition leads to increases in...
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Asymmetrische Effekte der Geldpolitik auf die Industrie in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - eine Untersuchung auf Branchenebene
Hock, Thorsten - 2003
Branchen eingeteilt. An eine kurze Betrachtung der Industrie aus makro- und mikroökonomischer Sicht schließt sich die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009433722
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Technical Efficiency and Technological Change in Australian Building Societies
Worthington, Andrew C. - 2000
In this study the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in deposit-taking institutions is investigated using nonparametric frontier techniques. Employing Malmquist indices, productivity growth is decomposed into technical efficiency change and technological change for a sample...
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Productivity, Technical and Efficiency Change in Singapore’s Services Sector, 2005 to 2008
Lee, Boon L. - 2011
The current study was motivated by statements made by the Economic Strategies Committee that Singapore’s recent productivity levels in services were well below countries such as the US, Japan and Hong Kong. Massive employment of foreign workers was cited as the reason for poor productivity...
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EFICIÊNCIA NA INDÚSTRIA DE MÓVEIS NO BRASIL: O IMPACTO DA ABERTURA COMERCIAL NOS ESTADOS E REGIÕES DO BRASIL.
Santos, Ricardo Bruno Nascimento dos; Santos, … - 2008
Com a abertura comercial na década de 90, muitos setores da economia que estavam em processo de industrialização se viram em dificuldade em enfrentar uma nova estrutura de competição, isso por sua vez acarretou numa industrialização tardia para algumas empresas do setor industrial,...
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MEASUREMENT AND EXPLANATION OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN MISSOURI HOG PRODUCTION
Ben-Belhassen, Boubaker; Womack, Abner W. - 2000
The U.S. live hog production has undergone a significant structural change characterized by a trend toward larger operations. Experts argue that there is a cost advantage for larger farms due to industrialization and increased management intensity. One important element in production, mainly for...
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Testing Porter's Hypothesis: A Stochastic Frontier Panel Data Analysis of Dutch Horticulture
van der Vlist, Arno; Withagen, Cees; Folmer, Henk - 2005
. We find considerable heterogeneity in the way firms react to environmental policy measures. Our estimation results …
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MEASURING TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN A SMALL-SCALE FISHERY: A causality analysis
Sergio, Colin-Castillo - 2011
The analysis of technical efficiency (TE) on the small-scale fishery is relevant for several reasons. While this type of fishery is highly common in developing countries like Mexico, there are a very limited number of analyses assessing their efficiency. Indeed, there is no precise information...
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Bounded Learning Efficiency and Sources of Firm Level Productivity Growth in Colombian Food Manufacturing Industry
Shee, Apurba; Stefanou, Spiro E. - 2011
function estimation is the possibility that there are some forces influencing production that are only observed by the firm and … frontier estimation to generate consistent estimates of production parameters and technical efficiency.The model is applied to … eliminate a common source of measurement error in production function estimation. Plant-level productivity growth decomposition …
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