Improving the technical efficiency of forest vegetation carbon sequestration is an effective way to accelerate pace and reduce cost neutrality in China. Therefore, it particularly important explore efficiency, influencing factors, optimization paths sequestration. This work uses a 21-year panel data set (2000–2020) 87 state-owned forestry enterprises (SOFEs) Northeast China combines geographic ...

Sugarcane productivity is cyclical in India and Tamil Nadu. The post-Green Revolution phase is characterized by high input-use and decelerating total factor productivity growth. Sugarcane productivity attained during the 1980s has not been sustained during the1990s and early 21 st century and has posed a challenge for the researchers to shift production function upward by improving the technolo...

Abstract We propose a novel penalized splines method to estimate stochastic frontier model in which the is linear and inefficiency has single index structure with unknown link function index. The approach more flexible than traditional methodology requiring parametric and, at same time, it does not incur curse of dimensionality as fully non-parametric approach. procedure can be easily implement...

The Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) contains incentives for hospitals to improve efficiency by placing them at financial risk to earn a positive margin on services rendered to Medicare patients. Concerns about the financial viability of small rural hospitals led to the implementation of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program (Flex Program) of 1997, which allows facilities des...