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The issue of optimal company size as well as related efficiency issues have always been a great dilemma for scientists … and professionals alike. It is now evident that a bigger size would not result in greater efficiency for all activities … European Union – it should be possible for small and medium enterprises to improve their operational efficiency and boost their …
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quantitatively measurable sense. In this paper, I test and compare the efficiency properties of wheat, corn, and oats futures prices …
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cooperatives return profits to their user members, the efficiency of the application department directly impacts farm profitability …
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In this paper we develop a theoretical model that links dynamic efficiency measurement and optimal investment under … static efficiency measurement literature it has been ignored so far in the context of dynamic efficiency measurement. This … paper targets at closing this gap. For that purpose we take up a dynamic efficiency model which embeds a stochastic …
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objective of the research is to compare dairy farms in Germany, The Netherlands and Hungary about their technical efficiency. In … the first part of the research, the efficiency is measured by partial efficiency indexes using one dimensional efficiency … measuring. In the second part, the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) have to be used to measure efficiency in a …
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Taken together, studies that examine how well commodity futures marketsperform find that risk premiums are common—and so unbiasedness is not—and marketsare not uniformly efficient across commodities or forecast horizons. This large body ofresearch sheds important light on whether and to what...
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of companies and the necessity for the higher fulfilment of customer needs. Logistic controlling is a tool of management … analysis of the system. The up-to-date and precise information that can be gained from the logistic controlling system helps …, logistic controlling makes the enterprises more efficient and successful. Taking the above into consideration, I carried out a …
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Farm management skills can affect farm managers' performance. In this article, farm management performance is analyzed based on yearly Illinois Farm Business Farm Management (FBFM) panel data across 6,760 farms from 1996 through 2011. Two out-of-sample measures of skill are used to analyze the...
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La producción agropecuaria está muy expuesta a los posibles efectos negativos de una serie de factores que presentan un muy alto grado de variabilidad. Factores climáticos, biológicos, institucionales, humanos y de mercados, afectan rendimientos y precios de productos e insumos. Estos...
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The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. For complete …
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