The paper assesses the extent to which sampling variation affects findings about Malmquist productivity change derived using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), in the first stage calculating productivity indices and in the second stage investigating the farm-specific change in productivity....

The paper analyses the imperfections in output and factor markets in Kosovo that act as abarrier to farm commercialisation. On the one hand, agricultural households may not haveaccess to output market due to an underdeveloped downstream sector. On the other, localproducers might not be preferred...