The present paper examines the importance that efficient resource use may have for cotton growers under the current EU policy regime. To that end, input-oriented technical and scale efficiency score for a sample of 172 cotton-growing farms are empirically quantified. The results suggest that...

This study uses a sample of 48 commercial banks in Taiwan for the period 2008 to 2010 to compare the operating efficiency between 30 domestic banks and 18 foreign banks. Due to differences in cultural sentiments, values, and business philosophies, this paper employs the Meta-Hybrid DEA model to...

This paper derives an analytic closed-form formula for the cumulative distribution function (cdf) of the composite error of the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) model. Since the presence of a cdf is frequently encountered in the likelihood-based analysis with limited-dependent and qualitative...

Heterogeneity among firms has been an important issue in studying firms’ technical efficiencies. If firms do not randomly fall into different groups with different technologies but by self-selection, statistically it implies the data are subject to the sample selection bias. In this paper, we...