scholarly journals India’s calorie consumption puzzle: insights from the stochastic cost frontier analysis of calorie purchases

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gautam Hazarika ◽  
Sourabh Bikas Paul
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Cost Frontier ◽  
Frontier Analysis ◽  
Calorie Consumption ◽  
Cost Frontier

Production Costs, Inefficiency, and Source Water Quality: A Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of Canadian Water Utilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
James I. Price ◽  
Steven Renzetti ◽  
Diane Dupont ◽  
Wiktor Adamowicz ◽  
Monica B. Emelko
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Water Utilities ◽  
Source Water ◽  
Stochastic Cost Frontier ◽  
Frontier Analysis ◽  
Cost Frontier ◽  
Source Water Quality

The relative efficiency of stock versus mutual S&Ls: A stochastic cost frontier approach

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Sinan Cebenoyan ◽  
Elizabeth S. Cooperman ◽  
Charles A. Register ◽  
Sylvia C. Hudgins
Keyword(s):  
Relative Efficiency ◽  
Stochastic Cost Frontier ◽  
Cost Frontier

scholarly journals Voters’ Information, Corruption, and the Efficiency of Local Public Services

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4775 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graziano Abrate ◽  
Federico Boffa ◽  
Fabrizio Erbetta ◽  
Davide Vannoni
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Stochastic Cost Frontier ◽  
Cost Frontier ◽  
Local Public Services ◽  
Career Concern ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Robust Evidence

This paper explores the link between voters’ information, corruption, and efficiency in the context of a career concern model, where politically connected local monopolies are in charge of the provision of a local public service. We find that both a corrupt environment and a low level of voters’ information on managerial actions induce managers to reduce effort levels, thereby contributing to drive down efficiency. We test our predictions using data on solid waste management services provided by a large sample of Italian municipalities. We estimate a stochastic cost frontier model that provides robust evidence that services produced in more corrupted regions with low voters’ information are substantially less cost-efficient.

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