the technical efficiency involved in cocoa production in cross river state was estimated using the stochastic frontier production function analysis. the effects of some selected socio- economic characteristics of the farmers on the efficiency indices were also estimated. the study relied upon primary data generated from interviewing cocoa farmers using a set of structured questionnaire. a multi...

‎This paper develops iterative method described by [V‎. ‎Daftardar-Gejji‎, ‎H‎. ‎Jafari‎, ‎An iterative method for solving nonlinear functional equations‎, ‎J‎. ‎Math‎. ‎Anal‎. ‎Appl‎. ‎316 (2006) 753-763] to solve Ito stochastic differential equations‎. ‎The convergence of the method for Ito stochastic differential equations is assessed‎. ‎To verify efficiency of method‎, ‎some examples are ex...

New types of characterization of Pareto efficiency based on data envelopment analysis are extended here in several new directions involving allocative efficiency and stochastic filtering methods.

This paper analyzes the cost efficiency and optimal scale of the electricity distribution industry in Taiwan. Due to the substantial difference in network density, firms may differ widely in production technology. We employ the stochastic metafrontier approach to estimate the cost efficiency of 24 distribution units during the period of 1997 and 2002. Empirical results find that the average cos...

The efficiencies of firms should be evaluated, based on their historical financial data. Here a process for evaluation is proposed. Each historical data set is reduced to a distribution function with a mean and a variance estimated by Kalman filter. Then, a stochastic efficiency model is applied to this reduced data. Then a new efficiency measure is proposed and compared with existing measures....

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the levels of technical efficiency in agricultural sector of MENA countries by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) approaches in 2007-2008. The results show that the total average of technical efficiency is as follows: DEABCC(0.770)>DEACCR(0.744)>SFA(0.479), and among all MENA countries, the best performanc...