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Two alternative estimation models, i.e., a translog cost function and data envelopment analysis (DEA) based on a cost … results indicate that while the translog cost model exhibits increasing returns to scale for all the ownership groups, the DEA … is very restrictive. The DEA cost model is much more flexible in this respect: It neither requires the restrictive …
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Radial and non-radial DEA models are distinguished on the basis of the presence of slacks. Viewing slacks as a possible …
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This paper empirically examines the different variants of data envelopment analysis (DEA) models to select the large …
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This paper briefly reviews the existing methods of capacity utilization in nonparametric framework from economic perspectives, and then suggests an alternative in the light of limitations therein. In the spirit of work by Coelli et al. [Coelli, T.J., Grifell-Tatje, E., Perelman, S., 2002....
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, 1177-1193) made significant contributions to the literature on the extended radial DEA framework by decomposing profit …, can be potentially misleading. To address these concerns, we first introduce non-radial DEA models, and then, provide a …
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This paper applies a new variant of data envelopment analysis model to examine the performance of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India. The findings show a significant heterogeneity visible in the cost efficiency scores within 19 years. The decline in performance after 1994-95 can be taken...
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Studies on Indian manufacturing have been unable to provide consistent estimates of productivity and its growth rates. This paper performs detailed and exhaustive set of accounting exercises for the period 1970-2003 using production function, index number and envelopment analysis methods. TFP...
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This paper answers the puzzling questions that why under the similar set of economic conditions service sector in India grew while manufacturing could not and how economic reforms in 1990s accelerated the productivity growth. The paper provides a very innovative and convincing explanation. Two...
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This study is concerned with a great socio-economic experiment in history that replaced the naturally evolved market economy with the humanly designed command economy to achieve a socialist triumph over capitalism, experienced a setback and ultimately returned to the market economy for managing...
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The present study proposes an alternative method to construct an index of globalization which is based on the principle of almost equi-marginal contributions (AEMC) or Shapley values of the constituent variables to the overall index rather than the correlation coefficients among the constituent...
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