This study investigated the technical and scale efficiencies in rice production by rice farmers in Ebonyi State Nigeria using the data envelopment analysis (DEA). Data was collected from a sample of 180 farmers using multi-stage sampling technique. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics...

The study was carried out to provide empirical evidence on technical efficiency of maize production in Nigeria using parametric and non-parametric approaches. The study employed annual secondary data on maize production in Nigeria from 1971 to 2010.Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data...

A guiding principle in the development of forest management plans is that the plan should meet the principles of optimality, and thus efficiency. The resultant plan represents a snapshot in time of the decision makers (DMs) preferences, which can change through time as the DMs life situations...

The objectives of this study were to estimate the levels of technical and scale efficiency for a sample of pasture based Irish dairy producers, to identify the factors that contributed to reaching the optimum scale and to examine the relationship between technical and scale efficiency with farm...

In this paper, we question the definition of a financial technology that results from the application of a traditional methodology with DEA to the analysis of portfolios of financial assets. We acknowledge the previous applications and show how two approaches have been adopted until now in the...

In measuring technical and scale efficiency of Tanzanian Saving and Credit Cooperatives we used a sample of 103 audited financial statements during 2011. Data envelopment analysis was employed to explore the efficiency scores. The results show that average scores are 42%, 52% and 76% for...

Over the last 30 years or so, many states in the US have legalized casino gambling/gaming in an effort to boost tax revenues. Four mid-western (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri) and two southern (Louisiana and Mississippi) states adopted legalized gaming in the form of riverboat casinos due...

The current society opinion about the public sector is not positive. In general, people perceive the public sphere as an area where the government wastes money or where the public management of non-profit organisations just squanders money provided by the government. We may find this sort of...

Recently Leleu [A linear programming framework for free disposal hull (FDH) technologies and cost functions: Primal and dual models] presented a linear model for assessing the FDH-cost function with various returns to scale assumptions. He stated that economic inefficiency can be computed as the...