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Partially Convex Production Technology and Efficiency Measurement
Economists tend to believe that production technology should exhibit increasing returns to scale first and then constant and finally decreasing...
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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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Production Economics and Economic Efficiency
This introductory chapter focuses on the different efficiency concepts, which are the base for the following chapters, highlighting their special...
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Efficiency and Cost of Grain Production
Grain production requires a large amount of land, human, material, and financial inputs. With the increase of grain production per unit area, the...
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Nonparametric estimation of allocative efficiency using indirect production theory: Application to container ports in Norway
Adaption to prices is an important feature of productivity development. This paper proposes an extension of the StoNED model to accommodate...
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Scale elasticity and technical efficiency measures in two-stage network production processes: an application to the insurance sector
In performance analysis with tools such as data envelopment analysis, calculations of scale properties of the frontier points are studied using both...
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Environmental information disclosure and firm production: evidence from the estimated efficiency of publicly listed firms in China
This study employs the recently developed conditional nonparametric frontier approach to assess the impact of environmental expenditures associated...
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The Impact of Technological Changes on the Efficiency of the Enterprise’s Production Activities
The research deals with the issue of the impact of technological changes on the efficiency of the production activities of enterprises. The authors...
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Analysis of technical efficiency of irrigated tomato production in North Gondar Zone of Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia
Ethiopia is a country with a total population of more than 110 million, of which about 80% of the total population is engaged in subsistence farming...
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Sharing Infrastructure and Improving Operational Efficiency
Infrastructure, as a public good, has obvious spillover effects which contribute to economic efficiency while safeguarding the provision of public...
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How do dimensions of institutional quality improve Italian regional innovation system efficiency? The Knowledge production function using SFA
This paper investigates the contribution of different dimensions of institutional quality on the efficiency of the Italian regional innovation system...
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Problems of Energy Efficiency Improvement in Mechanical Engineering
In recent years, the automation of production processes has become increasingly in demand and widely used. However along with the increase in...
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Addition and aggregative efficiency
The aim of this paper is to relate the condition for cost subadditivity to aggregative efficiency. In particular, we verify that subadditivity of the...
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Productive efficiency analysis with incomplete output information
We present a novel Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)-type method to evaluate the productive efficiency of Decision Making Units (DMUs) when the...
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On efficiency in disagreement economies
We analyze multiple-beliefs based efficiency measures in economies with risk and disagreement, including belief neutral efficiency and inefficiency,...
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Stability and efficiency in a model of production and pillage
A collective choice model of an environment where a society must allocate but cannot legally enforce property rights over an indivisible productive...
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On aggregation of technical and revenue efficiency measures
We discuss and propose new results regarding combined production efficiencies of an aggregate group, such as industry or region. Based on the...
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Analysis of the Dependence of Agricultural Production Efficiency in the Regions of Russia on the Availability of Resources Based on the Multidimensional Grou** Method
Agriculture is extremely dependent on limited resources. It is relevant to rationally use production resources in the sectors of agriculture to...
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Efficiency of Low-Carbon Finance: Its Interrelationships with Industry and Macroeconomic Environment
This study contributes to the literature by addressing the relevance of low-carbon finance efficiency and making significant contributions. We employ...
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Analysis of resource use efficiency for white cumin production among smallholder farmers empirical evidence from Northwestern Ethiopia: a stochastic frontier approach
Cumin is a flowering plant and the second Ethiopian export spice crop next to ginger. The area coverage, as well as the production of white cumin, is...
