stage, cross country workers' efficiency is estimated using a bootstrapped DEA approach over the period of 1990-2000 for 78 … countries. In the second stage, the impact of institutions on these efficiency estimates is analyzed in a truncated bootstrapped …, bureaucratic inefficiencies, lax regulations and unfriendly business policies, tend to have a larger effect on workers efficiency …

through technological progress and improvement in farm-level technical efficiency. However, no formal analysis has yet been … background, this paper examines the technical efficiency and its determinants for a sample of fish pond farms from the Tarai … estimated mean technical efficiency is 77%, with intensive farms being more efficient than extensive farms. The adoption of …

from gill net fishers in Malaysia, the paper presents the first technical efficiency study of an artisanal fishery and …

This paper estimates technical efficiency in fishing activities of industrial vessels that operated during the 1990 … production frontiers are compared. The main results are: (a) There is a high and significant correlation between the effi-ciency … rankings obtained with the two algorithms. (b) The fixed effect algorithm generates greater efficiency scores and more disperse …

b) efficiency change are estimated for a period of 1990-2000 for 78 countries. In the second stage, the impact of … of institutions influencing efficiency change are not found. This study also shows that institutions that curb corruption …