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A mixture based stochastic frontier model

... 1977; Greene, 1980a; Stevenson, 1980; Greene, 2003) and stochastic approaches (Aigner et al., 1977; Greene, 1982, 1990a; Kumbhakar and Lovell, 2000). Inparticular, the works of Aigner et al. (1977) ...

antoq - 03/17/2012 - 03:18 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Bayesian Inference in Threshold Stochastic Frontier Models

... Our motivations of extending the threshold model to a stochastic frontier framework are as follow. First, the idea is to introduce ... when group probabilities depend on covariates (Orea and Kumbhakar, 2004). Certain models are more general than the Markov switching ...

antoq - 03/17/2012 - 03:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Assessing Bankruptcy Prediction Models: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

... content about firm’s technical inefficiency. To do it, a stochastic frontier model with firm-specific technical inefficiency effects in ... production of firms; see for example, the manuscripts by Kumbhakar and Lovell (2003) and Coelli et al. (2005). It also has been used in ...

puput - 03/21/2012 - 01:46 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

R&D, Advertising and Efficiency

... and Japanese companies’ technical efficiency basing on stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) in household appliance industry, and show ... cost (in)efficiency is voluminous and growing rapidly.[See Kumbhakar and Lovell (2000) for a recent survey.] SFA introduces a two-part ...

antoq - 03/16/2012 - 07:10 - 0 comments - 0 attachments