One of the important applications of data envelopment analysis (DEA) is estimation of most productive scale size (MPSS). The goal of this study, is to propose a new approach for estimating of MPSS in the presence of uncertain data that only the upper and lower bounds of them are known. To reach...

Non-parametric evaluation of returns to scale of production units in standard DEA models becomes problematic when their underlying technologies involve negative data. The methodology recently offered by Allahyar and Rostamy-Malkhalifeh (2015) (hence after called ARM model) is of some help to...

This paper investigates whether there is any relationship between farm size, technical efficiency and the use of agrochemicals which are potentially environmentally contaminating. These questions are pertinent in the context of current EU policy decisions. Using two models of stochastic frontier...