Many prior studies on Indian banking efficiency have typically regressed non-parametric estimates of production efficiency on environmental variables in a two-stage process. However, Simar and Wilson (2007) have demonstrated that the studies that use such conventional approaches are invalid due...

This paper addresses the issues of technical efficiency, total factor productivity and its convergence for cereal crop production in Indian agriculture using district level data over twenty-five years from thirteen major states. We estimate a stochastic frontier model to analyze technical...