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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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Identification and Stochastic Analysis of Factors Influencing Technical Inefficiency of Nigerian Smallholder Soybean Farmers [PDF]
Tropicultura, 2014 Smallholder soybean production is investigated using an econometric analysis otherwise known as stochastic frontier analysis through transcendental logarithmic (translog) production function, which incorporates an inefficiency effects model.
Otitoju, MA., Adebo, GM., Arene, CJ.
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ECONOMETRIC INEFFICIENCY ESTIMATES IN A COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT doi: 10.5329/RECADM.20080701001]
Revista Eletrônica de Ciência Administrativa, 2008 The objective of this paper is to apply a Cobb-Douglas, Translog Stochastic Production Function and Data Envelopment Analysis – particularly the Malmquist index - in order to estimate increases or decreases of inefficiencies over time as well as ...
Edward Bernard Bastiaan Rivera Rivera +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino +2 more
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Estimating a Production Function for Iran with Emphasis on Energy and Expenditure on Research and Development: An Application of Genetic Algorithm Method [PDF]
پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2016 This paper aims to estimate various production functions, with emphasis on energy and investment in R& D, in Iran over the period 1979-2010. Following estimation of different production functions including CES (Constant Elasticity of Substitution), GPF ...
Karim Eslamloueyan, Ali Hussain Ostadzad
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Scientific African, 2019 In this study, we analysed the profit efficiency of Ghanaian maize farmers using data collected from 576 farmers in four agro ecological zones of Ghana. The stochastic frontier translog profit function was the main method of analysis.
Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The measurement of eco‐efficiency in the municipal solid waste (MSW) sector has garnered significant attention due to the substantial environmental impacts of unsustainable MSW management and the high operational costs associated with public service provision.
Ramon Sala‐Garrido +2 more
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Cross-Sectional Estimation of U.S. Demand for Beef Products: A Censored System Approach
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2002 Demands for beef products are investigated using the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 1987-88 Nationwide Food Consumption Survey data. The censored translog demand system is estimated with full-information and simulated maximum-likelihood procedures ...
Steven T. Yen, Chung L. Huang
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Cost efficiency and UK building societies. An econometric panel-data study employing a flexible fourier functional form [PDF]
, 1998 The paper empirically quantifies firm specific 'distribution free' cost efficiency, economies of scale and economies of scope in the UK building society sector between 1990-1995. Both a flexible Fourier and a translog functional form are employed with
Ashton, J.K.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The assessment of energy efficiency in water facilities is receiving increasing attention as a key strategy in the transition toward an energy‐neutral urban water cycle. This study evaluates the energy efficiency of 146 drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) in Chile by applying a latent class stochastic frontier analysis (LCSFA) to account ...
Alexandros Maziotis +1 more
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