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Effect of Land Tenure System and Fragmentation on Technical Efficiency of Rice Farmers in the Dadin-Kowa Irrigation Scheme, North-East, Nigeria

Dzever, Denen; Ayoola, J. B.; Abu, G. A.; Biam, C. K. - 2023

fragmentation affects the technical efficiency of DKIS rice farmers. Inheritance system of land tenure, land fragmentation and cost …This study was undertaken to analyze the effect of land tenure system practices and farm fragmentation on technical … efficiency of rice farmers under the Dadin-Kowa Irrigation Scheme (DKIS) and made use of cross-sectional data from a survey …

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Efficiency Evaluation of Very Large-Scale Samples : Data Envelopment Analysis with Angle-Index Synthesis

ren, Mu; Hao, Lining; An, Qingxian - 2023

In the era of big data, the sizes of samples to be evaluated are expanding, but this situation also hinders the use of data envelopment analysis models. Furthermore, only efficient decision-making units (DMUs) can be used to evaluate the efficiency of DMUs. Thus, finding these efficient DMUs has...

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How Does the Substitution of VAT for GRT Affect Outsourcing Behavior and Production Efficiency? Evidence from China

Bai, Chong-En; Li, Yan; Wu, Binzhen - 2023

The widespread replacement of gross receipt tax (GRT) with value-added tax (VAT) is an important phenomenon in the past half-century. Theory predicts that such tax reforms reduce vertical integration, increase production efficiency, and improve industrial structure. We exploit the tax reform...

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Technical Inefficiency of the Manufacturing Sector in Laos : A Case Study of the Firm Survey

Sayavong, Vanxay - 2023

the technical efficiency. This study discovered that the firm’s size, accounting system and credit access are crucial to … terms of which areas they should concentrate on to improve the technical efficiency as a part of productivity in the … data from the national survey – the Lao ECS – examining the technical efficiency in the manufacturing sector in the country …

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Determinants of Sharia Life Insurance Companies Productivity in Indonesia : Two-Stage Malmquist Productivity Index

Sukmaningrum, Puji Sucia; Hendratmi, Achsania; Syadiyah … - 2023

This study aims to measure the productivity and factors which affect the productivity of Islamic life insurance companies in Indonesia for the 2014-2019 periods.This study employed a Two-Stage Malmquist Productivity Index. The first stage was to measure productivity using the Malmquist...

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Efficiency and Productivity Gains of Robotic Surgery : The Case of the English National Health Service

Maynou, Laia; McGuire, Alistair; Serra-Sastre, Victoria - 2023

This paper examines the effect of new medical technology (robotic surgery) on efficiency gains and productivity changes for surgical treatment in patients with prostate cancer. We consider three interrelated surgical technologies within the English National Health System: robotic, laparoscopic...

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Regional productivity network in the EU

Mastromarco, Camilla; Serlenga, Laura; Shin, Yongcheol - 2023

We develop a unified stochastic frontier model which controls for the local spatial correlation and the global factor dependence as well as parameter heterogeneity, simultaneously. We then propose the regional productivity network analysis to examine the diffusion impacts of the capital...

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The roles of competition on innovation efficiency and firm performance : evidence from the Chinese manufacturing industry

Huang, Xunjiang - In: European research on management and business economics 29 (2023) 1, pp. 1-10

Firms, especially Chinese manufacturing firms, invest significant resources in innovation activities to sustain their position in the intensifying competitive environment. However, innovation efficiency has led to growing concerns due to the rapid increase in R&D expenditures. The purpose of...

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The role of green total factor productivity to farm-level performance : evidence from Norwegian dairy farms

Alem, Habtamu - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16

In the economics literature, measuring the performance of a dairy farm with a total productivity index is common practice. Previous research, on the other hand, has been chastised for failing to account for agricultural emissions in their models when calculating resource use productivity. This...

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Does contract farming affect technical efficiency? : evidence from soybean farmers in Northern Ghana

Selorm, Ayeduvor; Sarpong, D. B. S.; Egyir, Irene Susana; … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-22

farmers in Northern Ghana, we provide empirical evidence that contract farming increases soybean productivity and technical … efficiency in Northern Ghana. We use propensity score matching to reduce bias from observables, and then estimate a stochastic … production frontier model that addresses selection bias arising from unobservable variables. We find that the technical …

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