Essays about: "non-parametric frontier"

Found 3 essays containing the words non-parametric frontier.

1. 1. Assessing the Eco-efficiency of Swedish Crop Farms and the Role of Subsidies : a Directional Distance Function Approach

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Therese Ratilla; [2023]
   Keywords : Swedish crop farmers; CAP subsidies; FADN; stochastic frontier analysis; multi-output; one-step approach;

   Abstract : The agriculture sector’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its increasing vulnerability to the effects of climate change warrants assessments considering not only on-farm productivity but also the industry’s environmental sustainability. Utilizing the concept of eco-efficiency, this study analyzes the environmental performance of Swedish crop farms by incorporating farm-level GHG emissions as an undesirable output in the production function. READ MORE

3. 2. A Retake on Productivity Growht, Technical Progress and Efficiency Change using Malmquist Productivity Indexes.

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

   Author : Frank Eriksson Barman; [2014-09-05]
   Keywords : Productivity; Data Envelopment Analysis; Efficient Frontiers; Malmquist index; Technical Efficiency; Technological Change; Penn World Table; OECD countries;

   Abstract : This thesis follows methods employed by Färe et al. (1994) in their influential article ‘Productivity Growth, Technical Progress, and Efficiency Change in Industrialized Countries’, published in the American Economic Review. READ MORE

4. 3. Analyzing firm performance in a glass industry: a non-parametric frontier approach

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Serajes Salekeen; Mona Mahram; [2011]
   Keywords : industrial glass factory.; scale efficiency; technical efficiency; non-parametric frontier; economic efficiency; data envelopment analysis; allocative efficiency; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : A non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) method is applied in this study in order for calculating the technical and scale efficiency of a glass factory by means of a production frontier, despite the common trend among contemporary literatures to use stochastic parametric methods and ‘estimate’ the frontier production function. The available aggregated structure of the firm data paved the way for the authors to rethink and adopt a mathematical (linear programming) approach which would make it possible to conduct the study with a limited number of observations and without the detailed form of the production function. READ MORE