Technology Gap, Efficiency, and a Stochastic Metafrontier Function

George E. Battese and D.S. Prasada Rao ()
Additional contact information
George E. Battese: University of New England, Australia

International Journal of Business and Economics, 2002, vol. 1, issue 2, 87-93

Abstract: This paper considers a stochastic metafrontier function to investigate the technical efficiencies of firms in different groups that may not have the same technology. A decomposition of output is presented involving the technology gap and technical efficiency ratios for firms in a group relative to the best practice in the industry.

Keywords: efficiencies; stochastic metafrontier; technology gap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C5 D24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (259)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ijbe.fcu.edu.tw/assets/ijbe/past_issue/No.01-2/pdf/vol_1-2-1.pdf (application/pdf)
https://ijbe.fcu.edu.tw/assets/ijbe/past_issue/No.01-2/abstract/01.html (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ijb:journl:v:1:y:2002:i:2:p:87-93

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Business and Economics is currently edited by Hsiang-Tsai Chiang (Editor-in-Chief), Chiung-Ju Huang (Editor-in-Chief), Feng-Jyh Lin (Associate Editor), Tzu-Ching Weng (Associate Editor), Hsin-Yi Huang (Managing Editor) and Szu-Hsien Ho (Managing Editor)

More articles in International Journal of Business and Economics from School of Management Development, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Szu-Hsien Ho ().