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Analysis of Smallholder Maize Farmer’s Technical Efficiency and Farm Management Practices in the West Region of Cameroon
This study was undertaken to identify factors that influence smallholder maize farmers’ technical efficiency and farm Management practices in The...
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Circular economy and biomass utilization: economic prospect for sustainable energy transition in China
The move to sustainable energy is crucial as China balances fast economic expansion and environmental sustainability. This paper examines the complex...
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Examining the Relationship Between Eco-efficiency and Energy Poverty: A Stochastic Frontier Models Approach
Using a stochastic frontier analysis log-linear function and comparable data for 26 economies over the 2008–2020 period, the relationship between...
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Development strategy, technological progress, and regional environmental performance: empirical evidence from China
Based on regional economic development theories, industrial development strategies implemented by governments can distort factor market allocations,...
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Strategies for Emission Reduction in Construction: The Role of China’s Carbon Trading Market
Amidst global population growth and increased resource consumption, carbon emissions from the construction sector pose a significant environmental...
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Efficiency decomposition for multi-level multi-components production technologies
This paper addresses the efficiency measurement of firms composed by multiple components, and assessed at different decision levels. In particular it...
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Sustainable Green Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Regional Cooperation
Due to the continuous need to attain food security for the growing population, resource exploitation in the agriculture sector is evident. Hence,...
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Firm performance and markets: survival analysis of medium and large manufacturing enterprises in Indonesia
This study identifies the effect of firm performance, especially efficiency, on firm survival. This study applies efficiency calculations using a...
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Impacts of GAP on Profit Efficiency of Tea Farmers in Vietnam: An Application of Stochastic Profit Function
Tea production conducted under the standards of Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practices (VietGAP) has been strongly encouraged by the Vietnam...
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Efficiency Controls and the Captured Fishery Regulator
Rent dissipation in open access fisheries is well studied (Gordon J Polit Econ 62:124–142, 1954; Homans and Wilen J Environ Econ Manag 32:1–21, 1997)...
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Stochastic DEA
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was introduced as a linear programming model by Charnes et al. (Eur J Oper Res 2:429–444, 1978) and Banker et al....
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Data Envelopment Analysis: A Review and Synthesis
This chapter introduces the main concepts and models underlying the evaluation of efficiency using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique. It...
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The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits
This study examines the total factor productivity (TFP) of the South African deciduous fruit sector over an 8-year period (2014–2021), using...
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Two-tiered stochastic frontier models: a Bayesian perspective
Bayesian methods have been well-studied in single-tiered stochastic frontier literature, but as of yet have not been proposed in a two-tiered...
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Quadratic funding with incomplete information
Quadratic funding is a public good provision mechanism that satisfies desirable theoretical properties, such as efficiency under complete...
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Robustness in Stochastic Frontier Analysis
A number of recent studies have addressed the issue of robustness in the context of stochastic frontier analysis, and alternative models and...
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Two-Stage Evaluation of the Pre-merger Potential Gains of Taiwan Financial Holding Companies: Dynamic Network Slack-Based Measure Analysis Approach
The Financial Holding Company Act (FHCA) was passed in Taiwan in 2001 with 16 Financial Holding Companies (FHCs) incorporated up to the year 2020....
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Examining Digital Economy’s Role in Urban Green Development: A Study of the Yangtze River Delta Region
This study investigates the relationship between the digital economy and urban green development efficiency (GDE) in China’s Yangtze River Delta...
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Management Efficiency and Organizational Inefficiency
Shown in this chapter, which is mainly based Lin and Forrest (Kybernetes 37(1):149–165, 2008) and Forrest and Orvis (Kybernetes 45(8):1308–1322,...
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Dynamics of Operational Efficiency in Credit Lending and Recovery of Stressed Assets: An Alternative Approach with Undesirable By-Products
Our study estimates the operational efficiency of Indian banks during 2009–2010 to 2017–2018, considering advances, and recovery of stressed assets...
