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Explaining differences in farms efficiencies in Polish agriculture
Hockmann, Heinrich; Pieniadz, Agata - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
firm heterogeneity, which conventional SFA models do not. When the model is applied to Polish farms, the results indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913466
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Farm Heterogeneity and Efficiency in Polish Agriculture: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Hockmann, Heinrich; Pieniadz, Agata - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007
firm heterogeneity, which conventional SFA models do not. Applying the model to Polish farms, the results indicate that the … analysed. It is shown that despite the fragmentation of Polish agriculture, there is no evidence for scale inefficiency …. Moreover, inefficiency could partly be attributed to factors, which affect the management input and requirements on farms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005493834
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Efficiency Analysis of Rural Hospitals: Parametric and Semi-parametric Approaches
Nedelea, I. Cristian; Fannin, James Matthew - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012
-parametric approach as well as stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). CAHs receive Medicare cost-based reimbursement, in contrast with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421114
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Water efficiency of agricultural production in China: regional comparison from 1999 to 2002
Kaneko, Shinji; Tanaka, Katsuya; Toyota, Tomoyo; … - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 3 (2004) 3/4, pp. 231-251
We apply stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) techniques to a provincial level data set to measure technical and water …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010816439
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MEASUREMENT AND DECOMPOSITION OF FLEXIBILITY OF MULTI-OUTPUT FIRMS
Renner, Swetlana; Glauben, Thomas; Hockmann, Heinrich - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
Flexibility can be considered as a crucial factor of competitive advantage, especially under conditions of dynamically changing environments. Based on the classical microeconomic definition of flexibility, as introduced by Stigler, and some recent concepts developed in the production economics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913813
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Productivity Change in Polish Agriculture: An Application of a Bootstrap Procedure to Malmquist Indices
Balcombe, Kelvin George; Davidova, Sophia; Latruffe, Laure - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005
derived with DEA. It uses these results to investigate the productivity change in Polish agriculture during a crucial period … of the country's transition to a market economy, 1996-2000, when Poland was preparing for accession to the European Union … most important for Poland now is to unlock the forces that can drive ahead structural reform and thus productivity growth. …
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The Use of Bootstrapped Malmquist Indices to Reassess Productivity Change Findings: An Application to a Sample of Polish Farms
Balcombe, Kelvin George; Davidova, Sophia; Latruffe, Laure - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
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....
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Innovative electricity scheme sparks rural development in India's Gujarat State.
International Water Management Institute (IWMI); …
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A META-ANALYSIS OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN NIGERIAN AGRICULTURE
Ogundari, Kolawole - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
agriculture. Also the paper extracts consensus message about MTE and its drivers in Nigerian agriculture based on studies covering … eighty six observations for the econometric analysis. The regression results show that MTE in Nigerian agriculture increased … agriculture over the years. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880066
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Effect of infrastructure investments on total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian agriculture
Mendes, Sergio Magno; Teixeira, Erly Cardoso; Salvato, … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Productivity (TFP) and competitiveness of Brazilian agriculture. The Solow growth model with panel data is used to estimate TFP. An …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880071