abstractgiven the importance of the notion of efficiency in the country's economic growth, measuring the efficiency and the technology gap for various industries in order to achieve the best possible resource assignment, following the declared policy goals, is of particular importance for those countries, such as iran, which are now at the early stages of the industrialization process. hen...

This paper measures resource use efficiency of electricity generating plants in the United States under the SO2 trading regime. Resource use efficiency is defined as the product of technical efficiency and environmental efficiency, where the latter is the ratio of good output (electricity) to bad output (SO2) with reference to the best practice firm, i.e., one that is producing an optimal mix o...

BACKGROUND In recent years, there has been growing interest in measuring the efficiency of hospitals in Iran and several studies have been conducted on the topic. The main objective of this paper was to review studies in the field of hospital efficiency and examine the estimated technical efficiency (TE) of Iranian hospitals. METHODS Persian and English databases were searched for studies rel...

BACKGROUND Assessment of hospitals' performance in achieving its goals is a basic necessity. Measuring the efficiency of hospitals in order to boost resource productivity in healthcare organizations is extremely important. The aim of this study was to measure technical efficiency and determining status of resource allocation in some university hospitals, in Tehran, Iran. METHODS This study wa...

abstract quantitative analysis of production through evaluating the level of factor usage is a major part in agricultural management, which aims at increasing production by optimum usage of resources. this study has estimated and analyzed stochastic frontier production function and calculated technical efficiency of semi-mechanized broiler farms located in gorgan district. the survey data were ...

In light of the growing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR), there is still controversy regarding its impact on firms’ performance. this paper, we examine CSR initiatives, as a marketing investment, We treat initiatives investment and, consequently, returns appear over long term. use stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) approach which forward-looking financial market-based metric th...

This study examines the extent to which existing foreign direct investment (FDI) theories apply Chinese in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries. is important because explanations of outward FDI (OFDI) generally make scant reference these theories. By using OFDI data for BRI countries between 2003 2017, we tested hypothesizes applicable by both pooled ordinary least squares (PLOS) stochastic...

Technical efficiency (TE) and total factor productivity (TFP) are important criteria to ensure the enhancement of quality state-owned enterprises (SOEs) function as indicators assess their accomplishments. The purpose this study is explore whether SOEs higher or lower than that private enterprises. Transcendental logarithmic production stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) used TE TFP listed centr...