Productive Performance of Indian Mining Industry: A Stochastic Frontier Decomposition

Modeling Regional Productive Performance Using a Spatial Stochastic Frontier Approach: New Evidence for Europe (1995-2007)

The literature on the measurement of regional convergence at different spatial scales and over different time periods is extensive. This study explores the potential role of variations in European regional technical efficiency as a contributing factor in providing explanation for convergence or divergence. To control for spatial dependence among regions, the paper uses a spatial stochastic fron...

Benchmarking Organizational Performance of University Extension : a Stochastic Frontier Approach

Stochastic Non-Parametric Frontier Analysis

In this paper we develop an approach that synthesizes the best features of the two main methods in the estimation of production efficiency. Specically, our approach first allows for statistical noise, similar to Stochastic frontier analysis, and second, it allows modeling multiple-inputs-multiple-outputs technologies without imposing parametric assumptions on production relationship, similar to...

the comparative assessment of technical efficiency in the iran cement industry (stochastic frontier analysis approach)

the different model specifications have been proposed to estimate time-varying technical efficiency in the last two decades. these models have resulted different efficiency scores based on their built-in specifications. this study investigates the temporal pattern of technical efficiency based on cornwell, sickles, and schmidt (css, 1990) as well as lee and schmidt (ls, 1993) models. in order t...

Dust control practices in the Indian mining industry

Mining is a dust prone occupation and almost every major process in mining contributes to the atmospheric load of suspended particulate matter. Prolonged exposure of this dust is known to cause various respiratory diseases including deadly pneumoconiosis among the miners. The Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad has contributed significantly in the area of dust assessment and ...