This study aims to characterise the evolution of vineyard production, to measure the levels of technical efficiency … period 2000-2005, belonging to Portuguese Alentejo region. The methodology used to estimate technical efficiency, was the … stochastic production frontier. The results showed that there are room to improve the levels of technical efficiency in input use …

substantially increase farm efficiency and productivity. …

This study analyzes difference in efficiency among the U.S. rural hospitals using a two-stage, semi-parametric approach … on the efficiency of these hospitals while Medicare prospective payment system for non-CAH rural hospitals has a positive … effect on hospital efficiency. …

the proposed methodology that provides robust farm efficiency scores estimates. Using the 2007 Farm Accountancy Data … Network (FADN) data for Greece, analysis shows that the distribution of efficiency scores is closer to normality when … employing regression quantiles, while underestimation of efficiency obtained by other parametric or deterministic methods based …

incidence and ultimately on agricultural efficiency. We use a non-parametric method to estimate agricultural efficiency … health production function is used to estimate the impact of malaria incidence on agricultural efficiency. Data come from the … is expected to reduce agricultural efficiency by 0.07; in other words, ten percent increase in malaria incidence will …

This study examines technical efficiency of Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) using a two-stage approach and bootstrap … procedures for making valid inference about the impact of environmental variables on CAH efficiency. In the first stage, a data … envelopment analysis (DEA) efficiency estimator is used to estimate technical efficiency of each hospital in the sample. In the …

of poor performance and decline. That recovery is the consequence of improved efficiency in production resulting from …