Despite a continuing interest in the compared efficiency of labor-managed and conventional firms, only a handful of comparative empirical studies exist. These studies suggest that labor-managed firms have the same productivity levels as conventional ones, but organize production differently. However, the data used in these studies cover a single industry, or firms matched by industry and size i...

The current study deals with the technical efficiency of cotton farmers operating on Harran Plain Turkiye an application to two well-known stochastic approaches, i.e., Cobb-Douglas and translog frontier production functions. Using farm-level cross-sectional data, a specialized maximum likelihood technique incorporates both frontiers inefficiency effects models into single equation model estimat...

Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission of the Executive Yuan promulgated fully amended Certified Public Accountant Act in 2007, which directly led to significant changes accounting law. From perspective economic theory law, this study investigates amendment resulting an increase or decrease overall revenue and different shares firms, puts forward measures that should be taken by firms stakeh...

Abstract In the economics literature, measuring performance of a dairy farm with total productivity index is common practice. Previous research, on other hand, has been chastised for failing to account agricultural emissions in their models when calculating resource use productivity. This study estimated green factor (GTFP) accounting farms' CH4 emission model. The based unbalanced panel data f...

this study examines technical efficiency in iran's banking system using unbalanced panel data for 17 state and private banks during the 1997-2009 period. therefore, technical efficiency of banks was measured through estimating a translog cost function in the form of a panel sfa error compound model. then, the effect of underlying factors including both individual and structural (ownership/...

this paper is concerned with the estimation of frontier production function to measure the technical efficiency for iranian textile companies during 1995. the objective of this estimation is to investigate if there are any differences in the technical efficiency between the private and public firms as well as the relationship between technical efficiency and size of textile companies in iran. a...