The objective of this paper is to investigate the relative contribution of input use, technological change and technical efficiency to the production growth of the Greek agricultural sector, using a stochastic production frontier method (Battese and Coelli, 1999) to a panel of 608 farms over the...

This paper uses time series data for the period 1961-1995 and a flexible model to analyze the progress of factor-biased technological change in Greek agriculture. The model employs a third-order transcendental logarithmic cost function which allows the second-order coefficients to change over...

This paper applies the Window Malmquist Index (WMI) approach to measure chanages in agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) for the United States and a sample of nine European countries for the period 1973 to 1993. The data set used in this paper is obtained from Ball et al. (2001). The WMI...

This paper investigates a number of factors influencing technical efficiency of Greek farms participating in the 1994 European Union farm credit program. Technical efficiency measures are obtained within the framework of a parametric stochastic frontier. Factors showing a positive effect on...