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Measuring Parliamentarian Efficiency of Selected Countries in Asia: A Stochastic Frontier Model Approach
Najeebullah Khan, Azizul Baten, Adnan Hussein and Anton Abdulbasah Kamil
Corresponding Author: Najeebullah Khan
Submitted: January 19, 2012
Accepted: February 17, 2012
Published: February 25, 2012 |
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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.
Key words: A stochastic frontier model, Asian countries, Cobb-Douglas production function, parliamentarians technical efficiency, , ,
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Najeebullah Khan, Azizul Baten, Adnan Hussein and Anton Abdulbasah Kamil, . Measuring Parliamentarian Efficiency of Selected Countries in Asia: A Stochastic Frontier Model Approach. Research Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, (1): 21-29.
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ISSN (Online): 2040-7505
ISSN (Print): 2042-2024 |
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