Smallholder agricultural production depends heavily on environmental production conditions that are largely exogenously determined. Using panel data from 464 traditional rice plots in Côte d'Ivoire, the authors show that controlling for heterogeneous environmental production conditions...

The study on ownership and technical efficiency shows that enterprises with ownership types other than state ownership, domestic collective ownership, and joint domestic ownership are technically more efficient on average than these three types. This may indicate that, after 20 years of...

In this paper, state-level input and output quantity data constructed from the Annual Survey of Industries, for the period 1986-7 through 1995-6 are analysed, to measure levels of technical efficiency for each state, for each of the sample years using the non-parametric method of Data...

This paper examines the effect of four alternative measures of real money balances on production efficiency using annual panels of ten developed and ten developing countries. Using maximum likelihood, separate stochastic production frontiers are estimated, along with the parameters of an...

In Colombia, Mexico, and Morocco, firms' past exposure to foreign knowledge through exports, imported imputs, and foreign direct investment does not help to predict current product quality or productive efficiency