This paper presents a procedure for measuring technical and allocative inefficiency in an input distance function framework. The procedure involves solving a system of equations to compute the unobserved cost minimizing input vector that is used to compute the cost of allocative inefficiency....

Estimates of technical and scale inefficiencies of fresh fruits farms in Greece during the period 1991-1995 are obtained by using SFA and DEA. The empirical results confirm previous findings for the frequency distributions and the temporal pattern of technical efficiency. Namely, DEA tends to...