Improved land-use efficiency in agricultural production is crucial to meet increasing demand for agricultural … temporal dimensions of technical efficiency and land-use efficiency within Chinese crop production. During this period, China … results of this analysis, land-use efficiency increased slightly from 0.47 to 0.56 in most regions of China during that period …

dataset of 10 ASEAN countries from 1980 to 2017, this study examines the productivity and efficiency of the ASEAN economies … productivity index to provide estimates of gross technical efficiency, technical progress and returns to scale change, while taking … into account of transient and persistent efficiency. The results show that there is room for efficiency gains, as the ASEAN …

panel are employed to obtain measures of efficiency for those journals belonging simultaneously to the areas of “economics …” and “social science, mathematical methods” in the Web of Science database. This efficiency is measured in terms of the …

This paper investigates the link between competition and efficiency for the Hungarian corporate sector during various … estimated production functions indicate a gradual improvement in efficiency and a shift from decreasing to increasing returns to … efficiency of the firm. …

considerable appeal for the investigation of school performance and efficiency. Perhaps most important is that cost functions can … be specified to include multiple-output measures simultaneously, allowing us to estimate the efficiency of schools … functions typically require. This chapter develops and explores the estimation of school efficiency using school-level cost …