O’Donnell (2008), using country level panel data from the Economic Accounts for Agriculture for 23 EU member states. The …In the paper we investigate relative productivity levels and decompose productivity change for European agriculture …) has declined or not in the European Union (EU); (2) we compare the relative TFP level across EU member states and …

sector. The most popular ones are based on envelopment estimators, like the FDH or DEA estimators, that estimate the …

When benchmarking production units by non-parametric methods like data envelopment analysis (DEA), an assumption has to … frontiers across samples of producers. Until now, no exact tests for examining returns to scale assumptions in DEA, or for test … test for the hypothesis of constant returns to scale in DEA. The others are tests for general frontier differences and …