This paper investigates whether the effects of weather variability in temperature and precipitation on agricultural output are short- or long-run. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, the paper attempts to establish whether temperature or precipitation variability affects...

This study aims to investigate the determinants, efficiency, and potential of Indonesian palm oil downstream exports to the global market during 2012-2020. The stochastic frontier gravity model (SFGM) has been used to estimate the determinants, efficiency, and potential of palm oil downstream...

Access to agricultural credit is still a challenge in developing countries. The weakness of agricultural financing prevents producers from acquiring the modern technologies that are essential for the development of their activity. This paper aims to determine the impact of access to credit on...

The study sought to establish the level of technical, allocative, and economic efficiencies in irrigated onion production in southern Ethiopia, as well as to identify the sources of inefficiencies. The cross-sectional data were obtained from a total of 165 random onion farmers selected from the...

Efficiency and productivity measurement in the insurance industry has attracted great interest from academicians, practitioners, financial market analysts, insurance regulators, and researchers; however, the near absence of empirical work on the productivity changes of the life insurance...