Measuring parliamentarian efficiency of selected countries in Asia: A stochastic frontier model approach

The aim of this study is to investigate the technical efficiency of the parliamentarians of randomly selected eight Asian Countries using stochastic frontier model suggested by Battese and Coelli (1993) and applying it to unbalanced panel data sets for the period 2002-2010. A Cobb-Douglas stochastic...

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Main Authors: Khan, Najeebullah, Baten, Md Azizul, Hussein, Adnan, Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Maxwell Scientific Organization 2012
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/12845/1/v4-21-29.pdf
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author Khan, Najeebullah
Baten, Md Azizul
Hussein, Adnan
Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah
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description The aim of this study is to investigate the technical efficiency of the parliamentarians of randomly selected eight Asian Countries using stochastic frontier model suggested by Battese and Coelli (1993) and applying it to unbalanced panel data sets for the period 2002-2010. A Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function with both time-variant and time-invariant technical inefficiency effects were estimated with two alternative distributions.The half normal distribution was found preferable to the truncated for the technical inefficiency effects.Year wise mean technical efficiency of the parliamentarians of eight Asian countries was found to be 44 and 55% in both distributions and the mean efficiencies of parliamentarians during the reference period was observed to be decreased. Among the selected Asian countries, China was experienced highest, Philippine and Pakistan obtained lowest parliament efficiencies.Time-variant inefficiency effect model was found to be an adequate representation than time-invariant model.
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spelling uum-128452014-12-18T02:53:28Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/12845/ Measuring parliamentarian efficiency of selected countries in Asia: A stochastic frontier model approach Khan, Najeebullah Baten, Md Azizul Hussein, Adnan Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah QA Mathematics The aim of this study is to investigate the technical efficiency of the parliamentarians of randomly selected eight Asian Countries using stochastic frontier model suggested by Battese and Coelli (1993) and applying it to unbalanced panel data sets for the period 2002-2010. A Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function with both time-variant and time-invariant technical inefficiency effects were estimated with two alternative distributions.The half normal distribution was found preferable to the truncated for the technical inefficiency effects.Year wise mean technical efficiency of the parliamentarians of eight Asian countries was found to be 44 and 55% in both distributions and the mean efficiencies of parliamentarians during the reference period was observed to be decreased. Among the selected Asian countries, China was experienced highest, Philippine and Pakistan obtained lowest parliament efficiencies.Time-variant inefficiency effect model was found to be an adequate representation than time-invariant model. Maxwell Scientific Organization 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/12845/1/v4-21-29.pdf Khan, Najeebullah and Baten, Md Azizul and Hussein, Adnan and Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah (2012) Measuring parliamentarian efficiency of selected countries in Asia: A stochastic frontier model approach. Research Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 4 (1). pp. 21-29. ISSN 2040-7505 http://maxwellsci.com/print/rjms/v4-21-29.pdf
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Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah
Measuring parliamentarian efficiency of selected countries in Asia: A stochastic frontier model approach
title Measuring parliamentarian efficiency of selected countries in Asia: A stochastic frontier model approach
title_full Measuring parliamentarian efficiency of selected countries in Asia: A stochastic frontier model approach
title_fullStr Measuring parliamentarian efficiency of selected countries in Asia: A stochastic frontier model approach
title_full_unstemmed Measuring parliamentarian efficiency of selected countries in Asia: A stochastic frontier model approach
title_short Measuring parliamentarian efficiency of selected countries in Asia: A stochastic frontier model approach
title_sort measuring parliamentarian efficiency of selected countries in asia a stochastic frontier model approach
topic QA Mathematics
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