through efficiency analysis, especially, to examine the impact of farm mechanization on Myanmar rice production efficiency …. For representation of efficiency and the determinants, this paper uses both the data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the … stochastic frontier approach (SFA) with variable returns to scale on Myanmar rice production. The efficiency of the rice …

This paper examines the effect of financial development on countries’ production efficiency levels. By applying a … measure 87 countries’ production efficiency levels over the period 1970–2014. In order to examine the effect of time and … domestic credit on countries’ production efficiency levels, a second-stage nonparametric econometric analysis is performed …