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 …

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. …

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 …

farm technical efficiency for small-scale rice farms in eastern India. In contrast with the existing literature, we find …

average adoption effect on participants by testing for productivity difference between adopters and non-adopters. Secondly, we … estimate a stochastic production technology frontier to compare technical efficiency of farmers in the extension program. We … test for returns to scale, examine factors affecting technical efficiency of participants, and compare technical efficiency …