Measuring inventory turnover efficiency using stochastic frontier analysis: building materials and hardware retail chains in Norway

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

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

Measuring efficiency of governmental hospitals in Palestine using stochastic frontier analysis

BACKGROUND The Palestinian government has been under increasing pressure to improve provision of health services while seeking to effectively employ its scare resources. Governmental hospitals remain the leading costly units as they consume about 60 % of governmental health budget. A clearer understanding of the technical efficiency of hospitals is crucial to shape future health policy reforms....

An Econometric Analysis of Inventory Turnover Performance in Retail Services

Inventory turnover varies widely across retailers and over time. This variation undermines the usefulness of inventory turnover in performance analysis, benchmarking and working capital management. We develop an empirical model using financial data for 311 public-listed retail firms for the years 1987-2000 to investigate the correlation of inventory turnover with gross margin, capital intensity...

Measuring Technical Efficiency in the Stochastic Varying Coefficient Frontier Model

Due to the assumption that the best practice methods refer to each input separately instead of the whole set of inputs used by a firm, the benchmark technology as defined in the stochastic varying coefficient frontier model may be infeasible and theoretically improper whenever the maximum response coefficients are not coming from the same production unit. To overcome this problem we suggest an ...