Sorghum plot managers in different locations have varying levels of resource endowment that turn influence technical efficiency (TE). Therefore, operate at technology. The present study applied a stochastic metafrontier approach to assess TE and technology gaps female, male jointly-managed sorghum plots. A two limit-Tobit model was subsequently determinants TE. Results indicate male-managed plo...

This paper uses firm-level panel data from Taiwan’s manufacturing industries from 1987 to 2000 to investigate the impact of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) on the technical efficiency of the OFDI firms. Propensity score matching is used to construct an appropriate group of non-OFDI firms to compare with OFDI firms, and a metafrontier framework is subsequently used to calculate comparab...

Abstract China is the world's largest CO2 emitting country, and coal-fired thermal power generation accounted for over 50% of total electricity in 2015. This study reports changes efficiency plants from 2009 to 2011 elucidates how differences production scale regional heterogeneity affect efficiency. We propose a metafrontier data envelopment analysis (DEA) decomposition framework investigate s...