Abstract We investigate the impact of five types subsidies granted under European Union Common Agricultural Policy on persistent and transient inefficiency Polish dairy farms. Our research shows that coupled environmental reduce technical inefficiency, while opposite is true for Less Favoured Areas (LFA) other rural subsidies. Simultaneously, environmental, LFA, increase inefficiency. These res...

In this paper, a stochastic frontier model accounting for spatial dependency is developed using generalized maximum entropy estimation. An application is made for measuring total factor productivity in European agriculture. The empirical results show that agricultural productivity growth in Europe is driven by upward movements of technology over time through technological developments. Results ...

2014 A small-signal cell-model of the CCD is proposed, which is shown to account fully for frequency-response and noise performances of the device. The analysis applies both to shiftregister (analog or digital) structures and to imaging CCDs, and includes the effects of clock delay, transfer inefficiency, storage and transfer noises, and sampling-generated aliasing (Moiré). REVUE DE PHYSIQUE AP...

The price of anarchy is by now a standard measure for quantifying the inefficiency introduced in games due to selfish behavior, and is defined as the ratio between the optimal outcome and the worst Nash equilibrium. However, the price of anarchy is not even defined in games that admit no Nash equilibrium. We propose the dynamic inefficiency measure, which quantifies the average inefficiency int...

Traffic and mobility are important ingredients of our daily lives. However, as for road traffic, people and environment are suffering from inefficiency, air pollution and noise, for example. Especially in urban areas, the problems are quite obvious. That is why national and local authorities are (re-)discovering traffic management as an integrated component of traffic planning and control to ov...