… This paper analyses the performance of the small and medium-sized manufacturing firms …
We use a micro panel data set to simultaneously estimate a stochastic frontier production …

… analyze firm level data extracted from AMADEUS to document some deterioration in the
efficiency of capital allocation across Spanish manufacturing firms … 2005 using stochastic frontier …

… is to evaluate the efficiency of the Spanish airports using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
simulation to estimate a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) model. Our results show the …

… sample is Spain, which average production per firm is around … When u i,t = 0, the i-th firm
lies on the stochastic frontier and, … introduced in the production frontier model has been subject …

… of literature analysing SME performance, we apply SFA to estimate an investment frontier,
in … (5) includes dummies that control for firm size (micro firms), age (less than 10 years of …

… The results also reveal that company size, export orientation, … the performance of food
manufacturing industry SMEs in Spain … This paper uses stochastic frontier analysis to estimate the …

… -shape relationship between holding a patent and performance as the percentage of female
… capital and number of employees (a proxy of firm size). The choice of these control variables …

… of firm size in terms of the sources of TFP growth. This study applies a stochastic frontier
analysis to Korean firms to decompose the sources of total factor productivity growth into …

… as benchmark countries and Spain lagging behind) and a … of the nonparametric stochastic
frontier approach is to use a … in firm performance on the cross-country differences in firm size …

… Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), or both approaches to analyse firms’ performance. …
effects in the SFA literature, for example, firm size, firm age, debts, exports, and regional effects, …