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Title
A Metafrontier Production Function for Estimation of Technical Efficiencies and Technology Gaps for Firms Operating Under Different Technologies
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008:
Author(s)
Publication Date
2004
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008
Abstract
This paper presents a metafrontier production function model for firms in different groups having different technologies. The metafrontier model enables the calculation of comparable technical efficiencies for firms operating under different technologies. The model also enables the technology gaps to be estimated for firms under different technologies relative to the potential technology available to the industry as a whole. The metafrontier model is applied in the analysis of panel data on garment firms in five different regions of Indonesia, assuming that the regional stochastic frontier production function models have technical inefficiency effects with the time-varying structure proposed by Battese and Coelli (1992).
Publication Type
Journal Article
Source of Publication
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 21(1), p. 91-103
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISSN
1573-0441
0895-562X
Peer Reviewed
Yes
HERDC Category Description
Peer Reviewed
Yes
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