the main purpose of this study was to measure the level of technical efficiency of sugar beet producers and determination of factors affecting it. a sample of 144 producers in the main sugar beet growing areas of hamedan, nahavand, malayer and asadabad were selected by two stage cluster sampling method. data were collected through interviews during farming year of 2001-2002.technical efficiency...

population growth and the needs for protein and dairy products has urged policy makers to pay attention to efficiency policies in the livestock sector. the objective of this study is to survey the factors affecting the income of milk production, to calculate cattlemen’s technical efficiency and to determine the factors affecting the technical efficiency in the northern khorasan province. the re...

the main purpose of this research paper is to calculate irans housing (maskan) bank through the use of data envelopment analysis. in this research, the performance of 33 branches of the housing bank throughout tehran (capital city of iran) within 2002-2004 was analyzed and discussed. the results of the study shows that average technical efficiencies of housing bank branches in two hypotheses of...

This paper is concerned with the estimation of frontier production function to measure the technical efficiency for Iranian textile companies during 1995. The objective of this estimation is to investigate if there are any differences in the technical efficiency between the private and public firms as well as the relationship between technical efficiency and size of textile companies in Iran. A...

this paper studies the technical efficiency of 12 branches of saman bank over the period 1387-88, relating it to the composition of staff by sex, the ratio of fixed assets to total assets, the age of the branches and the geographic ranking in development indicators of the city where the branch is located in. data envelopment analysis is used to determine the efficiency of branches. the average ...