Telecommunications Capital Intensity and Aggregate Production Efficiency: A Meta-Frontier Analysis

Human Capital and Convergence: A Production-Frontier Approach

We decompose labor-productivity growth into components attributable to (1) technological change (shifts in the world production frontier), (2) technological catch-up (movements toward or away from the frontier), (3) human capital accumulation (changes in the efficiency of labor), and (4) physical capital accumulation (movement along the frontier). The world production frontier is constructed us...

Comparative Analysis of Stochastic Frontier Partially non-parametric and Stochastic Frontier Parametric Methods Case Study: Measuring Cost Efficiency in Wheat Production in Iran

International Capital Flows and World Production Efficiency

We develop a tractable two-country overlapping-generations model with domestic financial frictions and show that cross-country differences in financial development explain three recent empirical patterns of international capital flows. In our model, domestic financial frictions create two distinct distortions on the interest rates and production efficiency in the less financially developed coun...

Frontier-based techniques in measuring hospital efficiency in Iran: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis

BACKGROUND In recent years, there has been growing interest in measuring the efficiency of hospitals in Iran and several studies have been conducted on the topic. The main objective of this paper was to review studies in the field of hospital efficiency and examine the estimated technical efficiency (TE) of Iranian hospitals. METHODS Persian and English databases were searched for studies rel...

Measuring Eco-efficiency of Production: a Frontier Approach

Eco-efficiency of production is an important concept both from the viewpoint of society and business community; but as yet, there is no unambiguous way to its measurement. The purpose of this paper is to present a general measurement framework based on production theory and the activity analysis approach. Although we exploit the existing methods and techniques, our approach diverges essentially...