This paper assesses the cost efficiency of indicator-based targeting. Using household survey data from Malawi, we … poor. Likewise, under an indicator-based system, the costs of leakage are cut down by more than 50% compared to Starter … Pack and AISP. This work is prospectively relevant for Malawi as its policy makers reflect on improving the efficiency of …

measure the degree of oligopoly, oligopsony power, and cost efficiency in the U.S. beef packing industry. The oligopsony power … less stable than oligopoly market power for the whole sample period. The cost efficiency effect outweighs the market power …

research this study aims (i) to measure the farm-level energy and cost efficiency of conventional agricultural (wheat … potential and its costs. The analysis was carried out on survey data for 95 farms for production year 2007/08. Energy … regression to identify statistically significant determinants of energy efficiency. We found significant differences in energy …

This study investigates the impact of risk preferences on economic efficiency scores. Risk averse individuals may be …. Nonparametric techniques are used to estimate cost and revenue efficiency for a sample of Kansas farms. Each farm had a risk …. Efficiency estimates were first calculated using traditional input and output measures. Efficiency was re-estimated including the …

profit maximization framework is used to illustrate the role of cost efficiency in quota exchanges (i.e., sales and purchases … that variations in cost efficiency do not have a significant effect on purchases milk production quota, whereas scale … efficiency does. Younger farmers, farms with underutilized barns space and farms with a recent history of quota purchase tend to …

significant scope for improving cost efficiency in smallholder dairy farms in Northeast Thailand, and costs can be reduced by 26 … 130 smallholder dairy farms in six provinces of Northeast Thailand. Cost efficiency estimates indicate that there is … coupled with yield-enhancing technologies can enhance cost efficiency. Feed technology options that can potentially reduce …

gasoline prices—particularly in light of the growth in biofuel production. Contemporaneous price response and transmission of … strengthening relationship among corn, ethanol, and gasoline prices. We identify a structural change point at March 25, 2008 using …

hundred percent of ethanol. This paper investigates how motorists arbitrage between hydrous ethanol and gasoline using … demands for hydrous ethanol and gasoline. I estimate using nonlinear seemingly unrelated regressions the demands for hydrous … ethanol and gasoline in Brazil, and motorists preferences for hydrous ethanol. I nd that on average, accounting for the …