technical inefficiency
Firm Heterogeneity, Persistent and Transient Technical Inefficiency
... which inefficiency is treated as ...persistent inefficiency and include another component to capture time7varying technical ...persistent technical inefficiency ...
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Sources of technical inefficiency of smallholder farmers in milk production in Ethiopia
... estimates technical inefficiency in milk production of smallholder dairy farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia and identifies factors associated with the observed inefficiency using a stochastic ...
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Sources of Technical Inefficiency of Smallholder Farmers in Sorghum Production in Konso District, Southern Ethiopia
... on technical inefficiency suggests that the income obtained from such off/non-farm activities could be used for the purchase of agricultural inputs and augment financing household expenditures which would ...
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Determinants of Technical Inefficiency of Saccos in Kenya: Total Revenue Output Slack Analysis
... Saccos’ inefficiency in Kenya being within a range of ...Saccos’ inefficiency. Marwa and Aziakpono (2015) studied technical and scale efficiency of Saccos in Tanzania using DEA and concluded that on ...
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Productivity of the hired and family labour and determinants of technical inefficiency in Ghana’s fish farms
... the technical inefficiency model are responsible for explaining the level and variations in production of fish farms in ghana, al- though individual effects of some variables may not be ...Mean ...
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TECHNICAL INEFFICIENCY AND PAPAYA FARM SIZE IN WEST AFRICA: A STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH ON BENIN AND GHANA DATA
... The experience of the household head could either be negative or positive. If older farmers are interested in to adopting better practices for papaya production while younger farmers were more motivated to embrace ...
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Drivers of regional efficiency differentials in Italy: technical inefficiency or allocative distortions?
... of technical inefficiency, whereas traditional cost frontier functions solely allow measuring excess cost without distinguishing between technical and allocative ...
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Identification of information sources influencing the technical inefficiency of crop farmers in Vietnam
... The signs of the coefficients of the stochastic frontier are as expected, except the negative of land for cultivation and chemical variables. The negative sign of land for cultivation, which is significant at 5% level, ...
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Determinant Factors of Technical Inefficiency of Soybean Farming in Pangandaran Regency
... improve technical efficiency ...then technical inefficiency will decrease, this may be due to the managerial ability of farmers (Ali and Jan, 2017), resulting in increased technical ...
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Production Risk and Technical Inefficiency in Russian Agriculture
... farm's technical efficiency score may alter significantly. Therefore, technical efficiency assessed considering a producer's response to uncertainty is not the same in a setting where no effect of risk on ...
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Factors affecting the technical inefficiency of Thai manufacturing and exporting small and medium sized enterprises: A stochastic frontier analysis (SFA)
... and technical inefficiency effects model to predict the technical efficiency of 3,168 Thai manufacturing and exporting SMEs, analyze their returns to scale and key factors impacting on their ...
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DETERMINANTS OF TECHNICAL INEFFICIENCY OF THE SAVINGS AND CREDIT CO-OPERATIVES IN KENYA: A DIVIDEND OUTPUT SLACK ANALYSIS
... It can be concluded that the identification of strong Saccos in efficiency over different years can be used as benchmark. Those Saccos’ unique features can be adopted as the best management practices. Further another key ...
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Explaining technical inefficiency and the variation in income from apple adoption in highland Ethiopia: The role of unequal endowments and knowledge asymmetries
... into technical and al- locative e ffi ciency (Farrell, ...farmer’s technical e ffi ciency measures a farmer’s ability to produce the maximum possible level of output from a given input and production technol- ...
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Democratic Reforms, Foreign Aid and Production Inefficiency
... the inefficiency effect of aid is moderated in recipients that have experienced partial democratization ...production inefficiency that is moreover sizeable enough to overturn the positive effect of ...an ...
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Plan permutation symmetries as a source of inefficiency in planning
... This inefficiency can be exponentially expensive, since it is common for sym- metries to give rise to factorial-function factors in the size of search spaces, resulting from the permutations of sym- metric choices ...
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A Characterization of Inefficiency in Stochastic Overlapping Generations Economies
... Intuitively, inefficiency re- quires that real interest rate (net of growth) be sufficiently negative in the long-run, an admittedly vague and unprecise statement when interest rate ...for inefficiency: the ...
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Uncertainty Induced Dynamic Inefficiency and the Optimal Inflation Rate
... As in the previous model, we conduct comparative static analyses based on the three cases regarding agents’ preferences for uncertainty resolution. The first case where ρ = γ admits the same welfare implication of ...
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The Inefficiency of the Von Neumann Ratio in Time Series Regression
... 2 This is to be expected since the larger p3X3 is, the less ~the relative influence of ut in the residual vt, given by I0~ which tends to assume functional form with a necessarily small [r] ...
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Endogenous favouritism with status incentives: A model of optimum inefficiency
... Favouritism is undesirable but still is widely practiced within organizations. In recent times, an influential strand of research in theoretical economics has analyzed the role of favouritism in creating ...
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Entry threats and inefficiency in ‘efficient bargaining’.
... We study limit pricing in a model of entry with asymmetric information where the incumbent firm’s wage is endogenously determined through ‘efficient bargaining’ with its union.. In the p[r] ...
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