Pooling Cross Section And Time Series Data In The Estimation Of Stochastic Frontier Production Function Models

Pooling Cross-section and Time Series Data in the Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Production Function Models

Small and Medium Business Improvement in the ASEAN Region

The ASEAN Small and Medium Business Improvement Project seeks to contribute to this awareness of the significance of small and medium businesses (SMBs) in a direct and practical manner: through the examination of SMBs at ground level, and the dissemination of findings for policy action. The project is the collaborative effort of research teams in each of the ASEAN countries (except Brunei; the project was formulated before that country joined ASEAN), coordinated centrally at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS).

The Palgrave Handbook of Economic Performance Analysis

This Handbook takes an econometric approach to the foundations of economic performance analysis. The focus is on the measurement of efficiency, productivity, growth and performance. These concepts are commonly measured residually and difficult to quantify in practice. In real-life applications, efficiency and productivity estimates are often quite sensitive to the models used in the performance assessment and the methodological approaches adopted by the analysis. The Palgrave Handbook of Performance Analysis discusses the two basic techniques of performance measurement – deterministic benchmarking and stochastic benchmarking – in detail, and addresses the statistical techniques that connect them. All chapters include applications and explore topics ranging from the output/input ratio to productivity indexes and national statistics.