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Efficiency and productivity comparisons between outsourcers and non-outsourcers : evidence from a metafrontier production function with endogenous switching
Lin, Yi-Chen; Chiang, Li-Chih - In: The journal of international trade & economic development 23 (2014) 5/6, pp. 837-861
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Performance of the fruit crop industry in Ghana : empirical results and policy implications
Mensah, Amos - 2014
This study investigates the causes of declining output performance in the Ghanaian fruit pro-duction industry. Average industrial output level is lagging far behind that of competing na-tions (for instance, the productivity of Ghana pineapple farms is 60 T/Ha compared to 120 T/Ha for Cost Rica...
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Threshold effects of technological regimes for the stochastic frontier model
Chen, Ku-Hsieh; Ghosh, Soumendra N. - In: The journal of developing areas 48 (2014) 2, pp. 223-253
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Technology and managerial gaps in contract farming : the case of specialty crop production
Mishra, Ashok K.; Mayorga, Joaquin; Kumar, Anjani - In: Journal of agricultural and resource economics : JARE ; … 47 (2022) 1, pp. 77-96
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A metafrontier analysis on the performance of grain-producing regions in Norway
Alem, Habtamu - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 1/10, pp. 1-10
in Norwegian grain farms using the stochastic metafrontier approach. For this study, we classified the country into … the true random effect model and stochastic metafrontier analysis to estimate region level technical efficiency (TE) and …
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Do farmer professional cooperatives improve technical efficiency and income? : evidence from small vegetable farms in China
Dong, Ying; Mu, Yueying; Abler, David Gerrard - In: Journal of agricultural and applied economics : JAEE 51 (2019) 4, pp. 591-605
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Operational and disaggregate input efficiencies of international container ports : an application of stochastic frontier analysis
Chen, Huey-Kuo; Chou, Huey-Wen; Hsieh, Cheng-Che - In: International journal of shipping and transport … 10 (2018) 2, pp. 113-159
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Regional differences in technical efficiency and technological gap of Norwegian dairy farms : a stochastic meta-frontier model
Alem, Habtamu; Lien, Gudbrand; Hardaker, John B.; … - In: Applied economics 51 (2019) 4, pp. 409-421
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Agrifood system participation and production efficiency among smallholder vegetable farmers in Northern Ghana
Abdul-Rahaman, Awal; Issahaku, Gazali; Ma, Wanglin - In: Agribusiness : an international journal 39 (2023) 3, pp. 812-835
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Cereal production practices and technical efficiency among farm households in major "teff" growing mixed farming areas of Ethiopia : a stochastic meta-frontier approach
Birhanu, Fisseha Zegeye; Abrham Seyoum Tsehay; Bimerew, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-33
informant interviews. The technical efficiency scores were estimated using the stochastic meta-frontier approach because it …
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