competitive production compared to foreign markets. This paper aims to identify the level of technical efficiency on pig farms in … managerial behaviour and other non-measurable variables that influence the efficiency. The results determine what managerial … activities influence on the efficiency. They indicate the type and level of inputs that need to change and the quantity of output …

envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to estimate the technical efficiency of producers and Malmquist productivity index for …

technical efficiency, the water use efficiency and the dynamic of the productivity of the irrigated areas in the Sidi Bouzid … change. Empirical findings showed that the technical efficiency of the farms has increased by 17% during this period leading … to an improvement of the water use efficiency up to 22%. Both, the technical efficiency change as well as the technical …

common hypothetical technology, and would have had a more productive (own) technology. Efficiency scores and technology … that the efficiency differential and the productivity gap between Swiss farms and French farms were mainly due to larger …

. Second, by data envelopment analysis, the result of managerial efficiency simulation of a two-sector model, that is, the main … managerial efficiency than those with the conventional identity. Thus, it was revealed that a farmer’s identity makes a … difference in managerial efficiency. The efficiency level, however, was not high, which means that there is much room for …

Technical, allocative, and economic input efficiency scores were estimated for an unbalanced panel of Swedish dairy … parametric form to be chosen. The average DEA technical, allocative and economic efficiency indices were eventually found to be 0 ….77, 0.57, and 0.43 respectively. The influence of size on the efficiency scores was analyzed and significant evidence …

This study is aimed to analyze Russian corporate farms technical efficiency using DEA and allocative efficiency basing … efficiency scores speak for production technologies being homogeneous and mean that simple extension of "best practice …

efficiency of 44 agricultural economics programs from 19 Ukrainian universities during the 2002/03 academic year. Our empirical … results indicate wide disparities in performance, ranging from 36% to 100% technical efficiency. A second-stage analysis …

improvement of the use efficiency of the water resources in the agricultural sector. For this purpose, we suggest a methodology to … perform an ex-ante analysis of the efficiency of water pricing policies, based on a two stage DEA technique, by which it is … possible to disaggregate the technical and the ecological efficiency of the policy. According to our results, we found that …

their economic size. The main findings concerning the pure technical efficiency change indicate that in the units from the …