efficiency in agricultural production is indicative of the efficiency level of farm households in their farming activities. farmers in developing countries do not make use of all the potential technological resources, thus making inefficient decisions in their agricultural activities. herein, technical efficiency in relation with the production of three types of rice crop (boro, aus and aman) w...

the technical efficiency involved in cocoa production in cross river state was estimated using the stochastic frontier production function analysis. the effects of some selected socio- economic characteristics of the farmers on the efficiency indices were also estimated. the study relied upon primary data generated from interviewing cocoa farmers using a set of structured questionnaire. a multi...

1 This paper presents an empirical comparison of the following approaches to estimate annual 2 mileage budgets for multiple discrete-continuous extreme value (MDCEV) models of household 3 vehicle ownership and utilization: (1) The log-linear regression approach to model observed total 4 annual household vehicle miles traveled (AH-VMT), (2) The stochastic frontier regression 5 approach to model ...

Received analyses based on stochastic frontier modeling with panel data have relied primarily on results from traditional linear fixed and random effects models. This paper examines extensions of these models that circumvent two important shortcomings of the existing fixed and random effects approaches. The conventional panel data stochastic frontier estimators both assume that technical or cos...

This dissertation applies the Bayesian approach as a method to improve the estimation efficiency of existing econometric tools. The first chapter suggests the Continuous Choice Bayesian (CCB) estimator which combines the Bayesian approach with the Continuous Choice (CC) estimator suggested by Imai and Keane (2004). Using simulation study, I provide two important findings. First, the CC estimato...

In the standard stochastic frontier model with sample selection, the two components of the error term are assumed to be independent, and the joint distribution of the unobservable in the selection equation and the symmetric error term in the stochastic frontier equation is assumed to be bivariate normal. In this paper, we relax these assumptions by using two copula functions to model the depend...

in order to study the effective factors in sugar beet production, evaluation of technical, allocative and economical efficiency of sugar beet producers in bardsir city, 150 sugar beet producers were questioned by classified method. data were collected through questionnaire forms filled by producers in 2004-05. the stochastic frontier production and cost function method were used to analyze the ...