Stochastic frontier analysis: Foundations and advances I

SC Kumbhakar, CF Parmeter, V Zelenyuk - Handbook of production …, 2020 - Springer
Stochastic Frontier Analysis: Foundations and Advances I Page 1 Stochastic Frontier
Analysis: Foundations and Advances I Subal C. Kumbhakar, Christopher F. Parmeter, and …

[图书][B] Analyzing firm performance in the insurance industry using frontier efficiency and productivity methods

JD Cummins, MA Weiss - 2013 - Springer
This chapter reviews the modern frontier efficiency and productivity methodologies that have
been developed to analyze firm performance, emphasizing applications to the insurance …

[HTML][HTML] A survey and analysis of the first 40 years of scholarly literature in DEA: 1978–2016

A Emrouznejad, G Yang - Socio-economic planning sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

Stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data: semi-parametric frontier estimation subject to shape constraints

T Kuosmanen, M Kortelainen - Journal of productivity analysis, 2012 - Springer
The field of productive efficiency analysis is currently divided between two main paradigms:
the deterministic, nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the parametric …

Assessing eco-efficiency with directional distance functions

AJ Picazo-Tadeo, M Beltrán-Esteve… - European Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Eco-efficiency is a matter of concern at present that is receiving increasing attention in
political, academic and business circles. Broadly speaking, this concept refers to the ability …

Foreign direct investment and economic growth: Exploring the transmission channels

K Makiela, B Ouattara - Economic Modelling, 2018 - Elsevier
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on growth remains a thorny question for
researchers and policy makers. At the theoretical level it has been argued that FDI is growth …

Performance of hospital services in Ontario: DEA with truncated regression approach

H Chowdhury, V Zelenyuk - Omega, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work, we analyze production performance of hospital services in Ontario (Canada), by
investigating its key determinants. Using data for the years 2003 and 2006, we follow the two …

Energy optimization and greenhouse gas emissions mitigation for agricultural and horticultural systems in Northern Iran

F Mostashari-Rad, A Nabavi-Pelesaraei, F Soheilifard… - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The objective of this study is to comprehensively optimize energy usage and determine
mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in agricultural and horticultural crops of …

Statistical approaches for non‐parametric frontier models: a guided tour

L Simar, PW Wilson - International Statistical Review, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A rich theory of production and analysis of productive efficiency has developed since the
pioneering work by Tjalling C. Koopmans and Gerard Debreu. Michael J. Farrell published …

Environmental efficiency and the role of energy innovation in emissions reduction

MK Anser, W Iqbal, US Ahmad, A Fatima… - … Science and Pollution …, 2020 - Springer
Environmental problems, including extreme weather phenomena, unprecedented global
warming, and environmental disasters caused by increasing levels of CO 2 and other toxic …