Large expenses associated with rice production and dependence on energy related inputs like fuel and fertilizer in … (EE) for rice production in Arkansas at the field level using data from 137 fields enrolled in the University of Arkansas …, Rice Research Verification Program (RRVP) from 2005 to 2011. Efficiency scores for RRVP fields are compared with those …

enrolled in the University of Arkansas Rice Research Verification Program. The results reveal most fields have high technical … and scale efficiencies, implying inputs are used in minimum levels necessary to achieve given output levels and fields are … close to optimal in size. However, most fields exhibit allocative and economic inefficiencies and do not use inputs in the …

. Die Effizienz zahlreicher Agrarunternehmen Sachsen-Anhalts wurde darüber hinaus durch den verstärkten Bodenkauf negativ …The main focus of this Discussion Paper the analysis of the efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Sachsen … efficiency measurement the technical, pure technical and scale efficiency of agricultural enterprises on verge of the eastern …

The concept of efficiency in the public services is more complex than the concept of efficiency in the private, profit …-oriented sector. Consequently, the measurement of efficiency in the public services is very complex and implies more effort in the … identification of relevant outputs and inputs. One of the segments of the public service system in the Republic of Croatia is the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate technical efficiency obtained from both data envelopment analysis … (DEA) and stochastic frontier approaches using household survey data for rice farming households in Vietnam. Design …/methodology/approach – A bootstrap method is used to provide statistical precision of the DEA estimator. Technical efficiency is modeled as a …

Conditions in the optimization theory. However, our investigation and computational experiments show that such methods increase …

In a production technology, the type of returns to scale (RTS) associated with an efficient decision making unit (DMU …) is indicative of the direction of marginal rescaling that the DMU should undertake in order to improve its productivity …

Conditions from optimization theory. However, our investigation and computational experiments show that such methods increase … computational complexity significantly and may generate as optimal, solutions contradicting optimization theory. In this paper, we …

This study uses Data Envelopment Analysis to evaluate the cost efficiency of 52 Italian public universities. In … education institutions. The findings highlight biases in efficiency measurement arising from not separating the sample into … those institutions with medical faculties and those without. Efficiency scores are also shown to vary considerably when …

-student education costs (PSCs) in an effort to redress a number of methodological problems endemic to such estimations, particularly the …