trend towards farm consolidation, it is also imThe purpose of this paper is to measure the portant to know if large farms are more techextent of technical inefficiency among a nically efficient than smaller ones. Finally, it sample of Illinois grain farms using the corshould be noted that the method developed rected ordinary least squares method. Instead here can be easily applied to farm data ...

In this paper we consider the efficient instrumental variables estimation of a panel data model with heterogeneity in slopes as well as intercepts. Using a panel of U.S. airlines, we apply our methodology to a frontier production function with cross-sectional and temporal variation in levels of technical efficiency. Our approach allows us to estimate time-varying efficiency levels for individua...

We present the theoretical foundation for an adjustment cost technology that supports the intertemporal production decision making behavior using the directional distance function. Dynamic input efficiency measures are developed that can separate out the impact of variable and dynamic factors inefficiency levels. An approach to implement this theory in a nonparametric fashion is developed and a...

In this paper we consider a stochastic frontier model in which the distribution of technical inefficiency is truncated normal. In standard notation, technical inefficiency u is distributed as , . This distribution is affected by some environmental variables z that may or may not affect the level of the frontier but that do affect the shortfall of output from the frontier. We will distinguish th...

In the light of occasional involvement of traffic accidents and of seldom costless to dispose such undesirable accidents, conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods, which assume that traffic accidents are freely disposable in bus transit efficiency measurement, may not be appropriate. To rectify this shortcoming, this paper attempts to construct directional output distance function m...

Received analyses based on stochastic frontier modeling with panel data have relied primarily on results from traditional linear fixed and random effects models. This paper examines extensions of these models that circumvent two important shortcomings of the existing fixed and random effects approaches. The conventional panel data stochastic frontier estimators both assume that technical or cos...

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/...

in this research energy efficiency for greenhouse cucumber production in shahreza township located in esfahan province using data envelopment analysis (dea) technique was studied. in this study, data were obtained from 25 randomize active vegetable greenhouses from 60 greenhouses in shahreza township and villages environs. the results showed that the highest and lowest consumed energy were rela...