Balcombe, Kelvin George; Davidova, Sophia; Latruffe, Laure - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
The paper assesses the extent to which sampling variation affects findings about Malmquist productivity change derived … using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), in the first stage calculating productivity indices and in the second stage … investigating the farm-specific change in productivity. Confidence intervals for Malmquist indices are constructed using Simar and …