This paper analyses the technical efficiency (TE) of Sri Lanka's manufacturing sector in the Post-Liberalisation (post-1977) period. It applies a recently developed stochastic frontier-efficiency modelling technique to estimate technical efficiency/inefficiency of manufacturing industries using...

The paper investigates the effects of trade liberalization on the technical efficiency of the Bangladesh manufacturing sector by estimating a combined stochastic frontier-inefficiency model using panel data for the period 1978–94 for 25 three-digit level industries. The results show that the...

The paper reports the empirical results of the validation of the Stochastic Production Frontier (SPF) Model to an unbalanced panel comprising a cross-section of 8 manufacturing industries over a time span of 26 years The results provide insights on the repercussions of the micro-economic reform...