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 …

In this paper, the estimate of the productive efficiency for some Italian fleet segments is proposed. The estimate is … might be preferable to non-parametric DEA method for efficiency estimation. In other words, the risk connected with DEA is … efficiency of fishing vessels and fleet segments. This paper attempts to apply both techniques, simultaneously, to the …

. Concepts of relative growth efficiency, relative biological gain, and biological efficiency are all introduced to increase the …

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 …