Estimation of technical efficiency is widely used in empirical research using both cross-
sectional and panel data. Although several stochastic frontier models for panel data are …

Investigating the impact of public subsidies on farm technical efficiency is becoming a critical
issue in applied agricultural policy analysis. This article presents a meta-analysis of …

The objective of this article is to examine the association between agricultural subsidies and
dairy farm technical efficiency in the European Union, and in so doing we make novel …

We investigated the resilience of small-scale family farms because of the contemporary
importance of both the farms' resilience and the role of these farms in five countries of …

The concept of eco-efficiency, which can be defined as the simultaneous ability to achieve
economic results with the least possible degradation of the environment, has recently …

Productivity is an always-hotly-debated issue within the EU agricultural policymaking,
particularly concerning the effect of subsidies distributed via the Common Agricultural Policy …

Forest subsidies are widely used to achieve policy objectives aimed at maintaining and
supporting the provision of the various ecosystem services provided by forests. In the …

This paper examines the effect of government subsidies on firm-level productivity. The
subsidy-promoting policies are oftentimes justified on the ground that subsidies increase the …

This paper addresses the endogeneity of inputs and output (which is mostly ignored in the
stochastic frontier (SF) literature) in the SF panel data model under the behavioural …

Abstract In 2013, the Communist Party of China decided to partially relax its self-sufficiency
targets for grain, historically first recognizing moderate imports as a policy option for …