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A Comparative Efficiency Analysis of Wheat Farms using Parametric and Nonparametric Methods [PDF]

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Efficiency Analysis, Deterministic Nonparametric Method, Parametric, Stochastic Frontier., Production Economics, Q12,
Featherstone, Allen M., Mo, Lijia
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FARMERS RESOURCE – USE AND TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN COWPEA PRODUCTION IN NIGERIA [PDF]

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In Nigeria, the use of stochastic frontier to estimate farm level efficiency effects is still at the rudimentary level and is beginning to build up. Few studies have been undertaken but there is dearth need for more empirical studies on this important ...
A.T. Akanbi   +2 more
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The fixed effects estimator of technical efficiency [PDF]

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Firms and organizations, public or private, often operate on markets characterized by non-competitiveness. For example agricultural activities in the western world are heavily subsidized and electricity is supplied by firms with market power.
Wikström, Daniel
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What is the Environmental Performance of Firms Overseas?: An Empirical Investigation of the Global Gold Mining Industry [PDF]

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Bayesian stochastic frontier analysis; efficiency; environmental regulations and plant performance; pollution havens; regulatory chill; gold mining.
Gary Koop, Lise Tole
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The role of technology and institutions for growth : Danish creameries in the late nineteenth century. [PDF]

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We consider the relative contributions of changing technology and institutions for economic growth through the investigation of a natural experiment in history: the almost simultaneous introduction of the automatic cream separator and the cooperative ...
Henriksen, Ingrid   +2 more
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The shape of aggregate production functions: evidence from estimates of the World Technology Frontier [PDF]

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The article provides multifaceted evidence on the shape of the aggregate country-level production function, derived from the World Technology Frontier, estimated on the basis of annual data on inputs and output in 19 highly developed OECD countries in ...
Anna Pajor   +3 more
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