A Practitioner's Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using Stata provides practitioners in
academia and industry with a step-by-step guide on how to conduct efficiency analysis using …

In this paper we review the methodological framework for analysing decoupled payments in
models of agricultural production. Market and technological uncertainty, farm efficiency …

The paper investigates the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies on
farm total factor productivity (TFP) in the European Union (EU). We employ a structural semi …

This paper explores the link between financial constraints and productivity using firm-level
data from Chinese manufacturing industries. Based on a dynamic optimization model which …

Agriculture is an important source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and thus contributes
considerably to global warming. However, farms can vary substantially in terms of their …

This paper studies the effects of investment support from the common agricultural policy on
labour and total factor productivity of agricultural firms in Sweden. Detailed firm-level data on …

Government policies in the form of input subsidies have become an essential instrument for
improving the performance of the agricultural sector and overcoming the limitations of …

This article examines the presence of spatial spillovers in farms' dynamic technical
inefficiency scores using Data Envelopment Analysis and a second‐stage spatial truncated …

This article extends the conventional spatial autoregressive efficiency model by including
firm characteristics that may impact efficiency. This extension allows performing the typical …

The current paper is focused on material resources as a controlling factor in crop production.
It has been found that according to the analysis of crop production expenditures in …