importance of efficiency and productivity growth, they argue that priority should be given to debt reduction and tax cuts …

improvement of the use efficiency of the water resources in the agricultural sector. For this purpose, we suggest a methodology to … perform an ex-ante analysis of the efficiency of water pricing policies, based on a two stage DEA technique, by which it is … possible to disaggregate the technical and the ecological efficiency of the policy. According to our results, we found that …

in efficiency analysis and (2) to compare the efficiency measures with and without risk for continuous and rotation … cropping systems. The model uses Nebraska cropping system data for the period, 1986-2000. Results indicate lower efficiency … gains are realized with the incorporation of risk. The t-test at the 5% level of significance examining if efficiency …

This study examines the effect of banning antimicrobial growth promoters on efficiency in the production of weaned and … slaughter (finishing) pigs. We focus on the reaction of producers and production efficiency. We evaluate the estimated output … efficiency by evaluating the effects of the ban changes on total factor productivity. To this end we model a multi product shadow …

A stochastic input distance function is estimated to analyse the efficiency with which physical characteristics of … quality attributes. High mean technical efficiency estimates are reported for all animals and by breed. All partial output …