Productivity, Efficiency and Technical Progress

Thiry, Bernard; Tulkens, Henry

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8292.1989.tb02007.x

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“…On the other hand, technical change could be interpreted as changes over time in the position of the isoquant with respect to the origin of the coordinate system. The definition of these two concepts can also be found in Thiry and Tulkens (1989).…”

Section: Methodology and Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Productivity and Competitiveness: The Case of Football Teams Playing in the UEFA Champions League

Escuer¹,

Cebrián²

2016

AJSPO

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the competitive situation of the UEFA Champions League in relation to other entertainment alternatives. As tools of analysis, Malmquist indices for the football teams that have participated in the UEFA Champions League among the years 2003-2011 will be calculated. The Malmquist index measures the change in productivity whereas the efficiency ratios used for the calculation of the former were found by applying a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The relationship between productivity and competitiveness in an economic sector is as follows: an increase in productivity allows the remuneration of the factors to be increased without having to raise the price of the product offered. The UEFA Champions League may see its competitiveness threatened in relation to other entertainment alternatives, because participating teams do not show a clear increase in productivity.

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Section: Methodology and Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Productivity and Competitiveness: The Case of Football Teams Playing in the UEFA Champions League

Escuer¹,

Cebrián²

2016

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“…From that time onwards, a lot of experimental findings regarding FDH have been investigated. Such experimental works include Tulkens, (1986), Tulkens, (1988), Tulkens, (1989 and in also Tulkens, (1993). Abbas et al, (2014) had, in evaluating congestion in Free disposal Hull (FDH), briefly described the characteristics property of FDH model using production possibility set T as = {( , ) ∈ + + | } They further revealed deductions from production possibility set as deduce by λ Deprins et al (1984) by regarding the free disposability and deterministic assumptions of the production technology.…”

Section: Free Disposal Hull (Fdh)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Free Disposal Hull (Fdh), Oder-M and Oder-Alpha (Α) Efficiency Analysis for Rubber Smallholders in Malaysia

Aliyu

2018

Int. J. Res. Granthaalayah

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The study examines the technical efficiency of rubber smallholders in Negeri Sembilan under 3 age categories using different method of efficiency analysis which include the Free Disposal Hull (FDH), Expected Oder-m (EOM) and Oder-Alpha (α) (O-α). The analysis was done in such a way that the rubber age was categorized in to All-age, matured-age and Old-age categories. Multistage sampling procedure was used and 307 smallholders were used comprising 307,206 and 101 for all-age, matured-age and old-age categories respectively. The result of the analysis revealed that the mean technical efficiency of all-age, matured-age and old-age crops under FDH were 1.00, 1.00 and 1.00 while that of Order-Alpha and Expected Oder-m were 0.89, 0.89, 0.90 and 0.96, 0.97 0.98 respectively for the all-age, matured-age and old-age crops categories. The percentages of rubber crop farms that are on the FDH production frontier were 100%, 100%, and 100% while under Order Alpha (α) were 13%,10 and 20%. The ones under expected order-m frontier were 29%, 39% and 52% respectively for all-age, matured-age and old-age categories. The mean TE of FDH and mean TE of Order-Alpha were subjected under paired t-test and found to be statistically different from each other. It was revealed that mean TE of FDH was statistically greater than that of Order-M efficiency. Order- M and Order-alpha efficiencies were also subjected under paired mean t-test, and the results indicated that the two means were statistically different from each other. Expected Order-M was found to be statistically higher in magnitude than its counterpart Order Alpha. The study finally concludes that FDH has higher efficiency scores than the other two partial production frontiers. Also deduced from the study was that the old-age category has higher efficiency scores than both the matured-age and all-age categories under both the EOM and Oder Alpha production frontier techniques.. So conclusively the old-age is higher than the matured-age which in turn higher than the all-age category in both the Expected Oder-m and Oder-Alpha production frontiers. Most importantly, policy planners should be very cautious on specific techniques. They should as well be knowledgeable and comparatively minded on the results obtained from both the Expected Oder-m and Oder-Alpha production frontiers with regards to the policy selections on the rubber crop.

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“…Some performance measure or indicator of economic efficiency is required, and this measure could be technical progress, profit, cost, or output. A survey of some of the empirical, theoretical, and policy issues related to evaluating efficiency can be found in Thiry and Tulkens (1989) and Pestieau (1989).…”

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confidence: 99%