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Stochastic frontier production analysis: Measuring performance of public telecommunications in 24 OECD countries☆
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In this article, a new use of least absolute value (LAV) estimation for obtaining parameter estimates of a stochastic frontier production function is presented, which is combined with data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the resulting DEA/LAV estimates are examined by several statistical tests.About:
This article is published in European Journal of Operational Research.The article was published on 1994-05-05. It has received 70 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Data envelopment analysis.read more
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A unified framework for the selection of a Flexible Manufacturing System
Jen Shang,Toshiyuki Sueyoshi +1 more
TL;DR: This study finally identifies the most efficient FMS system by applying weight flexibility restriction and cross efficiency methods to rectify the difficulty.
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Trajectories of efficiency measurement: A bibliometric analysis of DEA and SFA
Hannes W. Lampe,Dennis Hilgers +1 more
TL;DR: This study surveys the increasing research field of performance measurement by making use of a bibliometric literature analysis and identifies two approaches, namely Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) as the most important methods to evaluate the efficiency of individual and organizational performance.
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Economic growth, telecommunications development and productivity growth of the telecommunications sector: Evidence around the world
Pun-Lee Lam,Alice Shiu +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the relationship between economic growth, telecommunications development and productivity growth of the telecommunications sector in different countries and regions of the world and assessed the impact of mobile telecommunications on economic growth and telecommunications productivity.
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Goal programming & data envelopment analysis (GoDEA) for target-based multi-level planning: Allocating central grants to the Greek local authorities
TL;DR: In this paper, an interface between goal programming and Data Envelopment Analysis (GoDEA) is developed to integrate target setting and resource allocation in multi-level planning problems.
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Projections Onto Efficient Frontiers: Theoretical and Computational Extensions to DEA
TL;DR: In this paper, a method is developed that determines the least-norm projection from an inefficient DMU to the efficient frontier in both the input and output space simultaneously, and introduces the notion of the observable frontier and its subsequent projection.
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Measuring the efficiency of decision making units
TL;DR: A nonlinear (nonconvex) programming model provides a new definition of efficiency for use in evaluating activities of not-for-profit entities participating in public programs and methods for objectively determining weights by reference to the observational data for the multiple outputs and multiple inputs that characterize such programs.
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Formulation and estimation of stochastic frontier production function models
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the disturbance term as the sum of symmetric normal and (negative) half-normal random variables, and consider various aspects of maximum-likelihood estimation for the coefficients of a production function with an additive disturbance term of this sort.
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Optimal Estimation of Executive Compensation by Linear Programming
TL;DR: It will be shown how the methods of linear programming may be used to obtain estimates of parameters when more usual methods, such as “least squares,” are difficult or impossible to apply.
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A Gamma-distributed stochastic frontier model
TL;DR: In this article, the authors modify the stochastic frontier model of Aigner, Lovell, and Schmidt to allow the one-sided part of the disturbance to have a two-parameter Gamma distribution rather than the less flexible half-normal distribution.
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Frontier production functions
TL;DR: The authors summarizes the literature on frontier production and cost functions and their relationship to the problem of efficiency measurement, and summarizes a survey of frontier production methods and their relationships to the efficiency measurement problem.