The article aims to investigate how operational managerial practices can contribute to improved farm level efficiency … contribution of the article is that it investigates aspects that can be adjusted every day to improve farm efficiency. Aspects … describing each of the considered managerial practices are regressed on farm level data envelopment efficiency scores based on …

This article integrates fuzzy set theory in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) framework to compute technical efficiency … situations, input and output data may be imprecise. We present an approach of measuring efficiency when data is known to lie …. Compared to the convectional DEA scores that are point estimates, the computed fuzzy efficiency scores allow the decision maker …

A method is developed to integrate the efficiency concepts of technical, allocative, and scale inefficiencies (TI, AI … maintained properties of a data generating process. The potential estimation efficiency gain arises from exploiting sample … correlations among TI, AI, and SI. Application to Maryland dairy production data finds that technical efficiency is on average 5 …

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. …

This paper investigates how managerial capacity aspects influence efficiency of dairy farms in Sweden. Based on non … efficiency scores, but to influence output efficiency less. Examples of important aspects are: internal locus of control …

competing with the National Brand (NB) products. From a policy perspective, an increased availability of high-quality PL …

We investigate the economic importance of implicit quality incentives in an agricultural market that lacks the … institutional capacity for measuring quality verifiably. We measure the magnitude of implicit price premiums for quality, and we … premiums comparable in magnitude to premiums observed in other agricultural markets where quality is measured verifiably …

mitigate increasing obesity. The objective of our study is to illustrate about the relevance of controlling for quality choices … quality elasticities using the methodology developed by Deaton (1988). For comparison purposes, we also calculate own price … elasticities, we simulate a scenario of 20% tax. Using Deaton’s methodology, we find a decrease in quantity (-12.4%) and quality …

soybeans need quality-characteristic specific information concerning soybeans pricing at the market. This study uses a hedonic … model to evaluate price differentials associated with soybean quality based on grain elevator data during the 1998 …