Improving productive efficiency is an increasingly important determinant of the future of the swine industry in Hawaii. This paper examines the productive efficiency of a sample of swine producers in Hawaii by estimating a stochastic frontier production function and the constant returns to scale...

This paper extends the analyses by Silberberg (1985) of the relationship between the expenditures for food to satisfy nutritional requirements and the expenditures to satisfy the desire for tastes using alternative estimates of the minimum cost or technically efficient diet. The hypothesis...

This paper examines major linkage measures in the literature from different perspectives and attempts to clarify some of the controversies over them. The examination and clarification suggest more refined backward and forward linkage measures for linkage indices construction. The measures are...