A Practitioner's Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using Stata provides practitioners in
academia and industry with a step-by-step guide on how to conduct efficiency analysis using …

Credit unions play a relevant role in providing microcredit and other financial services.
Because such financial cooperative organizations have drawn the attention of a significant …

This paper examines the impact of rural e-commerce development on rural households'
digital credit behavior at the micro-level by using a multivariate Probit model and propensity …

In this paper, we examine how the shadow banking activities of Chinese commercial banks
affect their cost efficiency. Furthermore, we investigate whether the relation between shadow …

Government policies are frequently used to promote productivity. Some policies are
designed to enhance production technology, while others are meant to improve production …

Purpose This study aims to explore conditions for the application of blockchain-enabled
financing versus traditional prepayment. It seeks to understand how a short food supply …

This article proposes an extended three‐stage DEA methodology similar to Fried et
al.(2002) to improve the measurement of productivity growth when the assumption of free …

Purpose–The paper aims to propose a modified multi‐activity data envelopment analysis
(MDEA) to provide information on the efficiency performance of farmers' cooperatives with …

臺灣的基層農會以信用, 供銷, 經濟及推廣為四大農會事業部門為主, 加上農會事業部門具多產出
特色及資本共享之情況, 以至於不易進行農會事業部門及整體農會的效率評估; 因此 …

We propose a new method to measure production inefficiency by estimating the target and
production technology of individual units using quantile regression. This method not only …