Cost Efficiency of Dairy Farming in New Zealand: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Comparative Analysis of Stochastic Frontier Partially non-parametric and Stochastic Frontier Parametric Methods Case Study: Measuring Cost Efficiency in Wheat Production in Iran

Technical Efficiency of Teaching Hospitals in Iran: The Use of Stochastic Frontier Analysis, 1999–2011

Background Hospitals are highly resource-dependent settings, which spend a large proportion of healthcare financial resources. The analysis of hospital efficiency can provide insight into how scarce resources are used to create health values. This study examines the Technical Efficiency (TE) of 12 teaching hospitals affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) between 1999 and 2...

comparative analysis of stochastic frontier partially non-parametric and stochastic frontier parametric methods case study: measuring cost efficiency in wheat production in iran

Efficiency of Secondary Schools in Portugal: a Stochastic Frontier Analysis*

The scores in the national examinations taken by students at the end of their secondary courses have received much public attention in recent years, partly justified by the importance they have among the criteria for admission to higher education. These scores also have been used to evaluate the performance of Portuguese schools offering secondary courses. The aim of this paper is to analyse su...

Efficiency of Rice Farming Households in Vietnam: A DEA with Bootstrap and Stochastic Frontier Application

This study estimates technical efficiency obtained from both Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier approach using household survey data for rice farming households in Vietnam. A bootstrap method is used to provide statistical precision of DEA estimator. Bootstrap methods have not commonly used in empirical analysis despite being an important statistical tool for improving the ...