used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate the output-oriented Malmquist total factor productivity (TFP) index from … panel data for 1993-2006 for farms in Southern Minnesota. Bootstrap methods were used to estimate confidence intervals for … the productivity, efficiency change and technical change indices. The model included three inputs (labor, land and …

Nonparametric technical efficiency estimates of potentially polluting input use in soybean and wheat indicate … regulate these inputs. While technical efficiency is not observable, indicators of environmentally beneficial practices are …

in the Brazilian Amazon. Farrell output-based technical efficiency and technological progress measures are derived by … using DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) for Amazonian counties and are regressed on non-discretional variables such as land … title. Land title is found to significantly improve the technical efficiency. …

(DEA), and then in the second stage, variation in the resulting efficiency scores are explained using a truncated … approach we take involves a two-stage process where output efficiency scores are first estimated using data envelope analysis … presence is associated with reduced agricultural production efficiency and may be an indication that externalities from the …

This article integrates fuzzy set theory in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) framework to compute technical efficiency …. Compared to the convectional DEA scores that are point estimates, the computed fuzzy efficiency scores allow the decision maker … scores when input and output data are imprecise. The underlying assumption in convectional DEA is that inputs and outputs …

A method is developed to integrate the efficiency concepts of technical, allocative, and scale inefficiencies (TI, AI …, SI) into the variable returns to scale (VRS) frontier approximation in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The proposed … weighted DEA (WDEA) approach takes a weighted average of the profit, constant returns to scale (CRS), and VRS frontiers, so …

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 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. …