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Farm size, soil investment, and quality : theory and evidence from a panel data aet in Tanzania

Dougherty, John P. - In: The journal of development studies 60 (2024) 7, pp. 1046-1070

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Baseline analysis of productivity changes with and without considering carbon dioxide emissions in the major manufacturing sector of Indonesia

Armundito, Erik; Kaneko, Shinji - In: Journal of Economic Structures 4 (2015), pp. 1-24

This paper provides empirical evidence of changes in the productivities of manufacturing firms in Indonesia over time, in the form of total factor productivity (TFP), from 1990 to 2010 with and without considering carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Employing cleaned and balanced panel datasets for...

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How scale and ownership are related to financial performance? A productivity analysis of the Chinese banking sector

Barros, Carlos; Fujii, Hidemichi; Managi, Shunsuke - In: Journal of Economic Structures 4 (2015), pp. 1-14

This paper analyzes productivity with a directional distance function model by investigating convexity and non-convexity in the Chinese banking sector. Two primary findings are summarized. First, there is a distinct change in productivity between large versus small banks and public versus...

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Profit efficiency of banks in Colombia with undesirable output: A directional distance function approach

Almanza, Camilo; Mora Rodríguez, Jhon James - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-30, pp. 1-18

This article analyzes the sources of bank efficiency in Colombia over the period 2000-2011. To perform this research …, the authors propose a score of bank efficiency using the directional distance function, which was estimated using data … bank-specific factors on efficiency. The results show that the non-inclusion of non-performing loans (NPLs) leads to higher …

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Efficiency and Returns to Scale Measurements with Shared Inputs in Multi-Activity Data Envelopment Analysis: An Application to Farmers' Organizations in Taiwan

Chen, Po-Chi; Chang, Ching-Cheng; Hsu, Shih-Shun - 2007

This paper addresses the question how team production promotes efficiency of a firm when some inputs can be rewarded on … with variable returns to scale is proposed to provide information on the efficiency performance for organizations with … in Taiwan. The result suggests that it is important to improve the efficiency of the non-profit oriented activities to …

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A sequential Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index

Oh, Donghyun; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

productivity are similar. Second, unlike in previous studies, the efficiency change is the main contributor to the earlier study …

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Technical efficiency of automobiles: A nonparametric approach incorporating carbon dioxide emissions

Hampf, Benjamin; Krüger, Jens J. - 2010

We conduct an empirical analysis of the technical efficiency of cars sold in Germany in 2010. The analysis is performed … allows incorporating the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions as an environmental goal in the efficiency analysis. A … cars and sports-utility-vehicles are also treated as different groups. The results show that the efficiency measurement is …

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Pricing Inputs and Outputs in Banking: An Application to CEE Countries

Hasannasab, Maryam; Margaritis, Dimitris - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 1 (2017) 4, pp. 13-34

Aim: A problem in efficiency and productivity studies in banking is that some of the input and output prices used in … with cost minimisation or revenue and profit maximisation. We also find that bank efficiency is highest on average in … departs from the traditional literature on efficiency and productivity by focussing on pricing and their implications thereof …

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Factor-Analysis-Based Directional Distance Function: The case of New Zealand hospitals

Jiang, Nan; Deng, Zhongqi; Pang, Ruizhi - 2019

a measure for undesirable output, and the average efficiency score is 90 percent. These evidence support the suspicion …

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Economic sanctions, energy efficiency, and environmental impacts: Evidence from Iranian industrial sub-sectors

Jabari, Leyla; Salem, Ali Asghar; Zamani, Omid; … - 2024

Improving energy efficiency is vital for curtailing energy consumption and can have substantial impacts on alleviating … carbon emissions. This study investigates the impact of sanctions on Iran's energy efficiency across different industrial sub …). This index measures how much each sub-sector has been affected by sanctions. Additionally, energy efficiency is measured …

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