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An examination of the cost efficiency of banks in Taiwan and China using the metafrontier cost function
Huang, Mei-Ying; Fu, Tsu-Tan - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 40 (2013) 3, pp. 387-406
Using the stochastic metafrontier framework of Battese et al. (J Prod Anal 21:91–103, <CitationRef CitationID="CR5 …
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Production Efficiency and Technology Gap in Irrigated and Rain-fed Rice Farming Systems in Sri Lanka: Non Parametric Approach
Thibbotuwawa, Manoj; Mugera, Amin; White, Ben - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013
farmers in Sri Lanka in two different perspectives; first, relative to a common metafrontier, defined as the boundary of an … each group. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) metafrontier and group frontier approaches are used for cross section survey …-fed farms move significantly towards inefficiency compared to the irrigated farms under the metafrontier technology. Results …
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Evaluating the efficiency of municipalities in collecting and processing municipal solid waste: A shared input DEA-model
Rogge, Nicky; de Jaeger, Simon - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, … - 2012
This paper proposed an adjusted “shared-input” version of the popular efficiency measurement technique Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) that enables evaluating municipality waste collection and processing performances in settings in which one input (waste costs) is shared among treatment...
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Historically black college and university operating cost efficiencies: stochastic cost estimates and comparisons to predominately white institutions
Sav, G. Thomas - In: International Journal of Education Economics and Development 3 (2012) 3, pp. 252-263
predominately white institutions in the USA. Panel data spans four academic years, 2005 to 2006 through 2008 to 2009. Cost frontiers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010669152
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Output complexity, environmental conditions, and the efficiency of municipalities
Balaguer-Coll, Maria; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 39 (2013) 3, pp. 303-324
Over the last few years, many studies have analyzed the efficiency of local governments in different countries. An accurate definition of their output bundles—i.e., the services and facilities they provide to their constituencies—is essential to this research. However, several difficulties...
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Output complexity, environmental conditions, and the efficiency of municipalities: a robust metafrontier approach
Ausina, Emili Tortosa; Jiménez, Diego Prior; … - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2010
doubts about the plausibility of an unconditional analysis. This study tackles these problems by proposing a metafrontier …
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Involvement of small and medium sized enterprises in the private realisation of public buildings
Heinecke, Bastian - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2002
This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...
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A metafrontier directional distance function approach to assessing eco-efficiency
Beltrán-Esteve, Mercedes; Gómez-Limón, José; … - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 41 (2014) 1, pp. 69-83
This paper uses directional distance functions to extend the non-parametric metafrontier approach to efficiency …
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Operational Efficiency and Technology Gap Ratio of Hotels under Different Environments (in Thai)
Untong, Akarapong - In: Applied Economics Journal 20 (2013) 2, pp. 37-54
This paper applied data envelopment analysis with slacks-based measure and metafrontier analysis to assess the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860210
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TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY UNDER PRODUCER’S INDIVIDUAL TECHNOLOGY: A METAFRONTIER ANALYSIS
Wang, Xiaobing; Hockmann, Heinrich - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
provinces that narrows over the study period and is driven by the shifts of production to the metafrontier. …
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