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Microfinance Institutions’ Efficiency in the MENA region: a Bootstrap-DEA approach
Ben Abdelkader, Ines; Hathroubi, Salem; Ben Jemaa, … - 2012
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performance of microfinance institutions in The MENA region over the period 2006-2009. Following Simar and Wilson (1998, 2000) we use a DEA-Bootstrapping methodology to drift appropriate measures of DEA efficiency scores. The estimated results show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311607
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Finite Sample Performance of Principal Components Estimators for Dynamic Factor Models: Asymptotic vs. Bootstrap Approximations
Shintani, Mototsugu; Guo, Zi-Yi - 2011
the bias is larger for a more persistent factor. In such a case, bootstrap procedures are effective in reducing the bias … and bootstrap confidence intervals outperform naive asymptotic confidence intervals in terms of controlling the coverage …
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