Studies that have analyzed the efficiency of developing countries have estimated non-spatial frontier models. We extend this approach by accounting for spatial dependence among African countries. In particular, we estimate a spatial Durbin stochastic production frontier model. We also make novel...

We examine the direct and indirect impacts of natural disasters on deposit rates of bank branches during the period 2008 – 2017. Our approach is one of the first to capture spatial spillover effects of disasters on the deposit rate setting of branches based on their geographic distance from...

This chapter estimates heterogeneous productivity growth and spatial spillovers through industrial linkages in the United States and China from 1981 to 2010. The authors employ a spatial Durbin stochastic frontier model and estimates with a spatial weight matrix based on inter-country...