Purpose This study investigates the interrelationships between efficiency, competition and risk in Chinese banking industry. Design/methodology/approach Parametric stochastic frontier analysis is used to estimate bank efficiency; Lerner index as indicator; accounting ratios a translog function are measure different types of finally, three-stage least square estimator investigate interrelationsh...

This paper is concerned with the estimation of total factor productivity (TFP) growth for the Iranian electric utilities during the period 1980-1993 on the basis of panel data. A translog cost function is used which accommodates firm - specific variability through a one - way error component model. The results show that the Iranian electricity supply industry experienced increasing returns to s...

To prevent further increases in energy consumption, the government of Iran commenced energy subsidy reform in 2010. This paper investigates the fuel conservation effects of the reform in Iran using a homothetic translog cost function that provides estimates of the own- and cross-price elasticities of fuel demands. The percentage reduction in fuel demands is estimated using the likely effect of ...

in this study the trend of technological change and its nature was studied in production of sugar beet in iran by using dual approach. this approach is useful for estimating the demand structure of the input price change and technology status. after estimating the various forms of flexible functions, by selection of translog cost function with cost share equations system is estimated using seem...

The objective of this paper is to estimate the Transcendental Logarithmic Production Function of manufacturing industry in Jordanian economy. Manufacturing industry can be considered as the fourth large one in Jordanian economy. In last decade, the growth rate in this sector is the second one after transport and communications. The gross fixed capital formation in manufacturing is the third one...

Two alternative estimation models, i.e., a translog cost function and data envelopment analysis (DEA) based on a cost model are compared and contrasted in revealing scale economies in the Indian commercial banking sector. The empirical results indicate that while the translog cost model exhibits increasing returns to scale for all the ownership groups, the DEA model reveals economies of scale o...

abstract since about 34% of areas under rice cultivation in whole country is attributed to gilan; in this study we pay attention to some economical dimensions, especially economic values of inputs in this region. data were collected from 80 rice producers in 2007-2008. consider to importance the parametric approach in production structure and factors demand, applying seemingly unrelated regress...

This paper aimed to study how industrial air pollution impacts crop yield by investigating the relationship between output and changes in factors. A translog production function was estimated context of stochastic frontier analysis using data collected from a field survey case corn. The interaction factors as well impact on analyzed numerical simulation, followed estimation economic losses corn...

Rodrik (2018) hypothesises that technology used in global value chains (GVCs) is biased against the use of unskilled workers. To test this hypothesis, we introduce a GVC production function which final output produced by means factor inputs from all countries participate GVC. In contrast, previous studies only consider one stage using single country. We derive substitution elasticities and labo...