China’s nationwide emission trading scheme (CN-ETS) is scheduled to be launched in 2017. It is of great urgency and necessity to obtain a good understanding of the participating sectors of CN-ETS in terms of energy utilization and CO2 emissions. In this regard, it should be noted that the findings may be biased without taking industry heterogeneity into consideration. To this end, a meta-fronti...

We compare, using data envelopment analysis (DEA), the performance of Islamic and conventional banks prior to, during and immediately after the 2008 financial crisis (2004-2009). There is no significant difference in mean efficiency between conventional and Islamic banks when efficiency is measured relative to a common frontier. A meta-frontier analysis (MFA), new to the banking context, howeve...

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In this study, the substituent effect on the electronic, spectroscopic properties and thermodynamic parameters of neutral and oxidized states of ferrocylidene acetophenone complexes was investigated by adopting the hybrid meta exchange-correlation functional of M06-2X. The frontier orbitals and the highest occupied molecular orbitals–lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals gaps of the substituted ...

This study analyzed sea salt production and compared the technical efficiency level technology gap between traditional High-Density Polyethylene Geomembranes (HDPE GMB) in Phetchaburi province using a copula-based meta-stochastic frontier technique. A total sample size of 250 was chosen, comprising 195 farmers 55 HDPE GMBs farmers. Several copula families were used to analyze dependence structu...

Abstract Over the past three decades, cereal subsector in Ghana has contributed immensely to food security country. However, limited evidence exists on production performance of this subsector, particularly terms heterogeneities across agro-ecological zones. This paper analyzes technology and using a nationally representative data set from 26,449 farms meta-stochastic frontier approach. The emp...

This study explains the differences and variances in efficiency scores of Vietnamese banking sector retrieved from 27 studies published refereed academic journals under framework meta-regression analysis. These are mainly based on frontier measurements, which essentially Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Stochastic Frontier (SFA) for banks over period 2007–2019. The is estimated by using truncate...

This report investigates 2nd Fall and 3rd Fall retention rates by Expected Family Contribution (EFC) for recent full-time, first-time (FTFT) freshman cohorts. This report serves as an update to, and extension of, prior retention by EFC reports that focused on 2 Fall Retention as the sole dependent variable. Sub-groups of interest including First Generation students, minority ethnicity students,...

The market performance of a company is greatly influenced by the functional experience chief executive. In case small startup, executive even greater. Based on career data executives, this study first classifies startups in information and communication technology (ICT) industry into four different groups. addition, analyzes effect CEO’s ICT deriving efficiency each using financial provided dat...