inefficiency effects. Sufficient evidence of positive relationship between wheat productivity and higher and balanced use of … fertiliser nutrients was present. The productivity showed an inverse relationship with the proportionate farm area allocated to …

productivity as industrial sector, or firms’ financial conditions. We use a micro panel data set of Spanish manufacturing firms …’ technical efficiency and then over their productivity. The analysis takes, also, into account other variables that could affect …

championed on grounds of improving productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness. In a developing economy this is a costly … proposition due to capital scarcity, and the effect of technological changes on productivity and efficiency levels have to be … estimated before taking such policies. This paper seeks to estimate trends in Factor Productivity, Technological Progress, and …

productivity index and the Fisher index. The two indices are used to measure changes in technology, profitability, efficiency, and … productivity in response to the adoption of 2 selected best management practices (BMPs) whose objective is to reduce water … profitability, efficiency and productivity. …

government regulation on the performance of the Iranian banking industry over the period 2003-2008. An alternative decomposition … into pure technical change and changes in scale efficiency. A combination of these approaches facilitates a robust and … comprehensive analysis of Iranian banking industry performance. While this approach is more appropriate than the traditional …

The paper investigates whether scale effects, market structure, and regulation determine the poor productivity … performance of the European business services industry. We apply parametric and nonparametric methods to estimate the productivity … frontier and subsequently explain the distance of firms to the productivity frontier by market characteristics, entry- and exit …

, Constant Returns to Scale (CRS) and Variable Returns to Scale (VRS) was 0.719 and 0.807 while the mean scale efficiency was 0 …

This paper aims to estimate technical and scale efficiency in the Italian citrus farming. Estimation was carried out … parametric and non parametric approaches, while a very small number of studies have aimed to compare scale efficiency obtained … difference in scale efficiency estimations in farming due to methods used. Empirical findings suggest that the greater portion of …