M. C. Shewry, Henry P. Wynn
(1987). Maximum entropy sampling. Journal of Applied Statistics: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 165-170.
Hal R. Varian
Abstract. I investigate the multiple agency problem when agents can monitor the per-formance of other agents. A particularly interesting incentive scheme of this sort has been used by the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and I use this example to investigate some general questions involving group incentiv...
Tim Coelli, Sanzidur Rahman, Colin Thirtle
Applying programming techniques to detailed data for 406 rice farms in 21 villages, for 1997, produces inefficiency measures, which differ substantially from the results of simple yield and unit cost measures. For the Boro (dry) season, mean technical efficiency was 69.4 per cent, allocative efficie...
Abdul Wadud, Ben White
This study compares estimates of technical efficiency obtained from the stochastic frontier approach and the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach using farm-level survey data for rice farmers in Bangladesh. Technical inefficiency effects are modelled as a function of farm-specific socioeconomic ...
A.V. Manjunatha, Asif Reza Anik, Stijn Speelman, E.A. Nuppenau
Mohammad A. Mustafa, Jamal F. Al‐Bahar
Construction projects often fail to achieve their time, budget, and quality goals. This is frequently due to the failure of the contractor to analyze and assess all risk factors. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is an approach that can be used to analyze and assess project risks during the biddi...
Md. Arif Istiake Sunny, Mirza Mohd Shahriar Maswood, Abdullah G. Alharbi
In the financial world, the forecasting of stock price gains significant attraction. For the growth of shareholders in a company's stock, stock price prediction has a great consideration to increase the interest of speculators for investing money to the company. The successful prediction of a stock'...
Hugh Waddington, Howard White, Birte Snilstveit, Jorge García Hombrados et al.
We provide a "how to" guide to undertake systematic reviews of effects in international development, by which we mean, synthesis of literature relating to the effectiveness of particular development interventions. Our remit includes determining the review's questions and scope, literature search, cr...
Sanzidur Rahman
Jessica Dart, Rick Davies
The Most Significant Change (MSC) technique is a dialogical, story-based technique. Its primary purpose is to facilitate program improvement by focusing the direction of work towards explicitly valued directions and away from less valued directions. MSC can also make a contribution to summative eval...
Jan Dhaene, Andreas Tsanakas, Emiliano A. Valdez, Steven Vanduffel
A bstract This article develops a unifying framework for allocating the aggregate capital of a financial firm to its business units. The approach relies on an optimization argument, requiring that the weighted sum of measures for the deviations of the business unit's losses from their respective all...
Anne T. Coghlan, Hallie Preskill, Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas
Abstract Appreciative inquiry is an approach to seeking what is right in an organization in order to create a better future for it. How and when it might be used in evaluation practice is explored in this chapter.
Bruce D. Phelps
Ahmed Rizvan Hasan
This is a review work in the area of application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Accounting and Auditing. A semi-systematic or narrative review approach was employed in analyzing relevant published books and journals. Faced with the challenges of disruptive technologies brought forth by the Indus...
Vishal Dagar, Muhammad Kamran Khan, Rafael Alvarado, Muhammad Usman et al.