Efficiency Analysis: A Primer on Recent Advances Page 1 Efficiency Analysis: A Primer on
Recent Advances Christopher F. Parmeter Department of Economics University of Miami …

Productivity improvement is an important driving force for developing countries to accelerate
the development of agricultural sectors and promote the transformation of economic …

The necessity of accounting for environmental impacts from production activities is
increasingly important as the environment and the ecosystem services it provides are …

This study measures the degree of market power of China's railway operator and analyzes
its determining factors. A newly-developed stochastic frontier method is used to estimate the …

This article presents a novel modeling framework that quantifies spatial spillovers on firm
total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components in a single‐stage setting. A random …

This article explores how farm size is related to economic benefits from diversification. Using
a data set pertaining to Bavarian dairy farms (2000–2014), we estimate an input distance …

The present study aims at improving our understanding of the individual contribution of the
components of total factor productivity (TFP) change to US agricultural productivity. A novel …

This paper estimates the local efficiency of the public provision of education in Colombia
between 2008 and 2013. Since the decentralization process in 1991, local authorities have …

This paper investigates the impact of the engagement of individual farmers with Farm
Advisory Services (FAS) on total factor productivity (TFP) growth, as a relevant indicator of …

Promoting decent rural employment, by creating new jobs in rural areas and upgrading the
existing ones, could be one of the most efficient pathways to reduce rural poverty. This …