Ce rapport passe en revue les travaux sur la competitivite, la productivite et l. efficacite des
secteurs agricole et agroalimentaire. Cette revue clarifie les concepts et la terminologie …

A meta-regression analysis including 167 farm level technical efficiency (TE) studies of
developing and developed countries was undertaken. The econometric results suggest that …

This paper proposes an econometric framework for joint estimation of technology and
technology choice/adoption decision. The procedure takes into account the endogeneity of …

In this paper, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to assess the technical efficiency of a
sample of irrigated dairy farms in Northern Victoria, Australia. It is proposed that DEA is a …

Agricultural production is often characterised by multiple inputs and multiple outputs to
multiple production processes. Where an output from one process is used as an input to …

In corporate finance, the impact of capital structure on firm performance has been widely
studied. This article extends the capital structure study to the situation in agriculture …

In this article, we develop and implement a methodology for analyzing the sources of
variation in environmental efficiency across producers. We formulate a two‐stage model. In …

This study presents an innovative empirical application to the assessment of agri-
environment measures on environmental and economic efficiency. Using a multi-equation …

Pesticides' dynamic effects and production uncertainty play an important role in farmers'
production decisions. Pesticides have a current production impact through reducing crop …

This paper utilizes recent advances in stochastic decomposition methodology to examine
the level and the driving forces of technical efficiency for an unbalanced panel data set of …