efficient domestic firms are also contributing to the gap. Domestic firms closer to the frontier are not more likely to catch up … than firms farther from the frontier, although foreign firms do exhibit this behavior. The distance of Russian firms to the … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of Czech firms. Nevertheless, after nearly a decade of reforms, neither model of …

obtaining the minimum distance of DMUs from the frontier of the PPS by ‖⋅‖1, which itself can be a very important subject in DEA … of DMUs from the frontier of the PPS and evaluating group performance of DMUs is the most important contribution of this …

This paper examines the implications of oil palm estate development in Indonesia’s frontier province of Papua …

This paper proposes a general formulation of a nonparametric frontier model introducingexternal environmental factors …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all parts of the distribution) from 1992-1994 to 1995-1997 and did not … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …

privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining … constant in the Czech Republic. Domestic firms closer to the frontier are not more likely to catch up than firms further from …

economic development in poor economies. Yet frontier-based development is symptomatic of a pattern of economy-wide resource … poor economies is associated with lower levels of real income per capita. The paper proposes a frontier expansion … hypothesis to explain why the structural economic dependence of these economies on frontier land expansion and resource …