Productivity Growth in Food Crop Production in Imo State, Nigeria [PDF]
The study examined the productivity growth in food crop production in Imo State with emphasis on the decomposition of total factor productivity into technical progress, changes in technical and allocative efficiency and scale effects.
Nwachukwu, Ifeanyi N. +2 more
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Impact of India-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement: A cross-country analysis using applies general equilibrium modelling [PDF]
The study attempted to analyse the long-term effects of the FTA on India. It is argued that after full trade liberalization, India’s allocative efficiency will increase, but the terms of trade effect will worsen continuously and remain negative.
Biswajit Nag, Chandrima Sikdar
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The impact of policy reform on productivity and efficiency in Chinese agriculture: A distance function approach [PDF]
The study is devoted to the measurement of productivity and efficiency change in Chinese farming sector over the reform process in the 1980s and 1990s. Within an output distance function framework, an index of total factor productivity is decomposed into
Brümmer, Bernhard +2 more
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Resource-use and allocative efficiency of paddy rice production in MADA, Malaysia [PDF]
, 2016 The study examined resource-use and allocative efficiency of paddy rice production in the MADA, Malaysia. A total sampling size of 396 rice farmers were selected using a multistage random sampling through a well-structured questionnaire.
Abd. Latif, Ismail +3 more
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Allocative efficiency and traders' protection under zero intelligence behavior [PDF]
This paper studies the continuous double auction from the point of view of market engineering: we tweak a resampling rule often used for this exchange protocol and search for an improved design.
Lucia Milone +2 more
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Tariffs in New Zealand : The economic impacts of retaining tariffs in New Zealand A dynamic CGE analysis [PDF]
The government announced in late 2009 that it would freeze tariffs at current levels until 2015 at the earliest. We examine the potential costs and benefits to the New Zealand economy of this policy decision using a recently-developed dynamic computable ...
James Giesecke +2 more
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On the Allocative Efficiency of Ownership Unbundling [PDF]
We analyze vertical structures where a regulated network operator serves n network users, and the network users compete in quantities for customers. We distinguish two cases: (i) none of the network users are related to the network operator (ownership ...
Bolle, Friedel, Breitmoser, Yves
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Scientific AfricanAlthough maize is a key crop, the levels of efficiency and their determinants among smallholder farmers in the study area remain poorly understood. Hence, this study aimed to evaluate the economic efficiency of maize production among smallholder farmers ...
Abriham Asefa, Ashenafi Sharo
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Analyzing Differences in Rural Hospital Efficiency: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach [PDF]
This study analyzes difference in efficiency among the U.S. rural hospitals using a two-stage, semi-parametric approach. Data Envelopment Analysis is used in the first stage to calculate cost, technical and allocative efficiencies of Critical Access ...
Barnes, James N. +2 more
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STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS OF NEW ZEALAND'S MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES: SOME EMPIRICAL RESULTS [PDF]
This paper examines the sources of total factor productivity growth (TFP) in New Zealand's manufacturing industries over the period 1978-98 and over various sub-periods. Examination of the data adopts two stages using a stochastic frontier approach.
Gounder, Rukmani, Xayavong, Vilaphonh
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