measure agency costs according to governance structure and vertical integration on a sample of 180 wine firms. The econometric …

Previous cooperative governance literature has relied primarily on qualitative data to recommend change. Using data …

efficiency is observed. Several factors explain differences in efficiency. Human capital matters not only through age and … processors increased efficiency through facilitating the adoption of technology and the access to credits. The superiority of …

This study analyzes difference in efficiency among the U.S. rural hospitals using a two-stage, semi-parametric approach … on the efficiency of these hospitals while Medicare prospective payment system for non-CAH rural hospitals has a positive … effect on hospital efficiency. …

Network (FADN) data for Greece, analysis shows that the distribution of efficiency scores is closer to normality when … the proposed methodology that provides robust farm efficiency scores estimates. Using the 2007 Farm Accountancy Data … employing regression quantiles, while underestimation of efficiency obtained by other parametric or deterministic methods based …

incidence and ultimately on agricultural efficiency. We use a non-parametric method to estimate agricultural efficiency … health production function is used to estimate the impact of malaria incidence on agricultural efficiency. Data come from the … is expected to reduce agricultural efficiency by 0.07; in other words, ten percent increase in malaria incidence will …