Technical Efficiency of Firms-Stochastic Frontier Approach
ICTs and time span in technical efficiency gains A stochastic frontier approach over a panel of Italian manufacturing firms
... Older firms are significantly more efficient than the ...that firms become more efficient over time as a result of a growing stock of experience in the production ...medium-sized firms present a ...
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Technical Efficiency of Cricket (A. domesticus and G. bimaculatus) Production: A Cobb-Douglas Stochastic Frontier Approach
... in many countries and rearing of edible insects is now emerging in animal production as an ecologically friendly aspect. Insect farming is performed largely by family-run enterprises that rear insects such as mealworms, ...
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Shipping Firms’ Efficiency Evaluation through Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... ternative approach to DEA, the great virtue of SFA is that it not only allows for technical inefficiency, but also acknowledges the fact that random shocks outside the management of producers can affect the ...
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Technical efficiency and corporate structure of Italian private hospitals: evidence from one step Stochastic Frontier Analysis
... Although firms operating in the private health system represent only a small (but growing) proportion of the whole supply of health services, we believe that investigating how ownership structure affects their ...
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Technical Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions in India A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... of stochastic frontier production function was given by Aigner, Lovell and Schimdt (1977) for cross sectional data which had an error term with two parts one for random effects and another for ...
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Technical Efficiency of Boro Rice Production in Meherpur District of Bangladesh: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
... the frontier are a result of firms’ inefficiency, while stochastic frontiers assume that part of the deviation from the frontier is due to random events (reflecting measurement errors and ...
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Using a One Health approach to assess the impact of parasitic disease in livestock: how does it add value?
... Coccidiosis in chickens, an intestinal disease caused by Eimeria species, is considered to have a major economic impact on poultry production worldwide (Chapman et al., 2013) and is one of the six pathogens targeted by ...
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Technical efficiency of irrigated rice production in Burkina Faso water control infrastructures: A stochastic frontier approach
... the technical inefficiency are significant in the irrigated rice production of Burkina ...of stochastic production of irrigated rice and the associated technical ...
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Technical efficiency and supply chain practices in dairying: The case of India
... not stochastic, is again rejected for the member and non-member farms at 5% level of ...their technical inefficiency (70% of 21% inefficiency) for the member farms is due to their wrong decision which is ...
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FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY AND TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN SWAMP RICE PRODUCTION SYSTEM IN EBONYI STATE: A STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH
... increase in farm size will lead to decrease in technical efficiency. This shows that smallholder swamp rice farmers could be more efficient in resource allocation than large scale farmers and do not require ...
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TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL FARMING: EVIDENCE FROM ITALIAN CEREAL FARMS
... (2) The estimated efficiency scores in our analysis indicate that organic cereal farms have some structural problems if compared with farms under conventional management. Analysis also indicates that inefficiency ...
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Evaluation Of Profitability And Technical Efficiency Of Irrigated Rice Production In Kebbi State, Nigeria
... of technical efficiency among irrigated rice farmers The estimates of the stochastic frontier production function for irrigated rice production is presented in Table ...to stochastic ...
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Technical Efficiency of Poultry Production in Afijio Local Government Area of Oyo state, Nigeria
... the stochastic frontier production function was used to determine the technical efficiencies of the poultry ...that technical efficiency of poultry farmers varied due to the elements of ...
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Technical Efficiency of Vegetable Farmers in Peri-Urban Ghana Influence and Effects of Resource Inequalities
... This approach is deemed appropriate when the object of the research is to explore altitudes or reactions of a group or community in response to some commonly experienced aspects of their environment [37] Through ...
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Testing for variation in technical efficiency of hospitals in Ireland
... firm efficiency that could account for multiple inputs, stating that technical efficiency is the ability of a firm to obtain maximal output for a given set of ...of technical efficiency ...
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EFFICIENCY OF VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN ALBANIA: A STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH
... Licensed under Creative Common Page 15 fertilizers per hectare of arable land, while Greece is using 160 kg, UK and Netherlands are using about 240 kg. At low input use production per unit of inputs, or average ...
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Technical Efficiency in the Informal Manufacturing Enterprises: Firm level evidence from an Indian state
... technical efficiency by dividing the firms into foreign owned and domestically ...which firms are classified into single owner (proprietary firms) and multi-owner (partnership) ...
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Technical Efficiency of Small Holder Cocoyam Production in Anambra State,Nigeria: A Cobb Douglas Stochastic Frontier Production Approach
... of technical efficiency as presented in table 2, coefficient for age was negative and significantly related to technical efficiency, which agrees with a priori expectation at ...low ...
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STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS OF MAIZE FARMERS IN AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, PAKISTAN
... the technical efficiency of maize growers through Cobb-Douglas type Stochastic Frontier Analysis in four villages of Muzaffarabad district, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), ...mean ...
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Technical Efficiency of Maize Production in Nigeria: Parametric and Non-Parametric Approach
... to efficiency measurements which could not be captured and addressed by other analytical ...under technical efficiency stochastic frontier analysis, data envelopment analysis constant ...
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