Dang, Trang; Leatham, David J. - 2011
The paper measures the U.S. Farm Credit System’s technical efficiency from 2000 to 2009 using a stochastic frontier … and investment. The efficiency of the whole system is estimated to slightly increase over time even during financial … crisis period from 2007. Among the system, a significant difference in efficiency between the 5Banks and the Associations has …