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Crime under-reporting in Bogotá: a spatial panel model with fixed effects
We examine spatial spillovers in violent crime and its under-reporting in Bogotá, Colombia, using a cuadrante (quadrant) level data. To model spatial spillovers, we use a spatial panel model with fixed effects, a...
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Is output growth of Chinese manufacturing firms input or productivity driven? A flexible production function approach with endogenous inputs
In this paper, we focus on estimating output growth and its components attributed to quasi-fixed inputs, variable inputs, and productivity change, while treating variable inputs as endogenous. We consider two ...
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Indirect inference estimation of stochastic production frontier models with skew-normal noise
In this paper we consider a stochastic frontier model in which both the noise and inefficiency components are asymmetric, viz., the noise term is skew normal and the inefficiency term is half-normal. This form...
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Recent Advances in the Construction of Nonparametric Stochastic Frontier Models
The growth of semi- and nonparametric methods to estimate the stochastic frontier model has expanded rapidly in the preceding years. This chapter provides a critical eye toward this burgeoning and important li...
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Do institutions matter for economic growth?
Using a unique dataset assembled from several sources, we examine the effects of democracy, corruption, and economic freedom on economic growth for over one hundred countries. To allow for heterogeneous effect...
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Modeling Technical Change: Theory and Practice
This chapter focuses on models dealing with technical change (TC). We discuss TC under both single output and multiple outputs cases. For the single output case, we specify the technology in terms of a (i) pro...
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Stochastic Frontier Analysis: Foundations and Advances I
This chapter (as well as Chap. 11) reviews some of the most important developments in the econometric estimation of productivity and efficiency surrounding the stochastic frontier model.
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Cost Assessment of (Un)bundling: Separation of Vertically Integrated Public Utilities
In this chapter, we focus on the unbundling or separation of vertically integrated public utilities, which has been the cornerstone of competitive reforms in the utilities sector worldwide over the last 30 yea...
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Stochastic Frontier Analysis: Foundations and Advances II
This chapter continues to review some of the most important developments in the econometric estimation of productivity and efficiency surrounding the stochastic frontier model. As in the previous chapter, we c...
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Correction to: Persistent and transient inefficiency in adult education
The correct affiliation is “Leuven Economics of Education Research (LEER), KU Leuven, Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven, Belgium”
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Modeling dependence in two-tier stochastic frontier models
The two-tier stochastic frontier model has seen widespread application across a range of social science domains. It is particularly useful in examining bilateral exchanges where unobserved side-specific inform...
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Open AccessPersistent and transient inefficiency in adult education
This paper evaluates the inefficiency of adult education programs. Using an advanced four-component stochastic frontier model on Belgian adult education data, we distinguish between persistent and transient in...
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Estimation of firm productivity in the presence of spillovers and common shocks
Productivity is largely estimated ignoring the potential impact of spillovers and common shocks in the literature, and therefore, the estimates may be subject to the omitted variable bias and internal inconsis...
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Open AccessEfficiency in reducing air pollutants and healthcare expenditure in the Seoul Metropolitan City of South Korea
This study analyzes efficiency in the reduction of air pollutants and the associated healthcare costs using a stochastic frontier cost function panel data approach. For the empirical analysis, we use monthly d...
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Estimation of costs of technical and allocative inefficiency
If a firm is both technically and allocatively inefficient its cost will increase. Since allocative inefficiency results from misallocation of inputs, cost of allocative inefficiency (CAI) can be obtained if t...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Modeling Technical Change: Theory and Practice
This chapter focuses on models dealing with technical change (TC). We discuss TC under both single output and multiple outputs cases. For the single output case, we specify the technology in terms of a (i) pro...
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Does Xistence of Inefficiency Matter to a Neoclassical Xorcist? Some Econometric Issues in Panel Stochastic Frontier Models
Does the presence of inefficiency affect estimation of the production function? This paper shows that one cannot ignore inefficiency in estimating the production function simply because standard neoclassical p...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Stochastic Frontier Analysis: Foundations and Advances I
This chapter (as well as Chap. 11) reviews some of the most important developments in the econometric estimation of productivity and efficiency surrounding the stochastic frontier model.
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Cost Assessment of (Un)bundling: Separation of Vertically Integrated Public Utilities
In this chapter, we focus on the unbundling or separation of vertically integrated public utilities, which has been the cornerstone of competitive reforms in the utilities sector worldwide over the last 30 yea...