Report NEP-EFF-2012-06-25

This is the archive for NEP-EFF, a report on new working papers in the area of Efficiency and Productivity. Angelo Zago issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Karanja, Francis & Gilmour, Daniel & Fraser, Iain, 2012. "Dairy productivity growth, efficiency change and technological progress in Victoria," 2012 Conference (56th), February 7-10, 2012, Fremantle, Australia 125053, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
• Daniel Kapp & Alan Sánchez, 2012. "Heterogeneity of total factor productivity across Latin American countries: evidence from manufacturing firms," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 12034, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.
• Salhofer, Klaus & Kargiannis, Giannis & Sinabell, Franz, 2012. "Scale Efficiency in Organic and Conventional Dairy Farming," 2012 First Congress, June 4-5, 2012, Trento, Italy 124119, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA).
• Abatania, Luke N. & Hailu, Atakelty & Mugera, Amin W., 2012. "Analysis of farm household technical efficiency in Northern Ghana using bootstrap DEA," 2012 Conference (56th), February 7-10, 2012, Fremantle, Australia 124211, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
• Thibbotuwawa, Manoj & Mugera, Amin W. & White, Benedict, 2012. "A Non-Parametric Analysis of Rice Production Efficiency in Sri Lanka," 2012 Conference (56th), February 7-10, 2012, Fremantle, Australia 124423, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
• Requillart, Vincent & Nauges, Celine & Simioni, Michel & Bontemps, Christophe, 2012. "Food Safety Regulation and Firm Productivity: Evidence from the French Food Industry," 2012 First Congress, June 4-5, 2012, Trento, Italy 124378, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA).
• Bhattacharyya, Surajit & Chatri, Ankit, 2012. "Efficiency of Indian Commercial Banks: The Post-Reform Experience from Mergers & Acquisitions," MPRA Paper 39299, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Qushim, Berdikul & Gillespie, Jeffrey M. & Nehring, Richard F., 2012. "Economic Performance Measures of Southeastern U.S. Cow-Calf Farms: Which Types of Farms Are the Most Efficient?," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124733, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Foltz, Jeremy D. & Aldana, Ursula & Laris, Paul, 2012. "The Sahel’s Silent Maize Revolution: Analyzing Maize Productivity in Mali at the Farm-level," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124633, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Mugera, Amin W., 2012. "The Impact of Debt Structure on the Production Efficiency of Broadcare Farms in Western Australia," 2012 Conference (56th), February 7-10, 2012, Fremantle, Australia 124342, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
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• Li, Xiaofei & Escalante, Cesar L. & Epperson, James E. & Gunter, Lewell F., 2012. "Technical Efficiency and the Probability of Bank Failure among Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Banks," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124591, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Tokovenko, Oleksiy & Shaik, Saleem, 2012. "Input Specific Efficiency Measures Using Bayesian Stochastic Frontier Analysis," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124702, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Michalski, Joel & McCracken, Vicki A., 2012. "Wheat Yield Response: On-farm Management versus Breeder Contributions," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 125009, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Renner, Swetlana & Glauben, Thomas & Hockmann, Heinrich, 2012. "Measurement And Decomposition Of Flexibility Of Multi-Output Firms," 2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil 124865, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
• Sumon Bhaumik & Ralitza Dimova & Subal C. Kumbhakar & Kai Sun, 2012. "Does Institutional Quality Affect Firm Performance? Insights from a Semi-Parametric Approach," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series wp1029, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan.
• Plesha, Nataliya & Ray, Subhash C. & Nehring, Richard F. & Ball, V. Eldon, 2012. "Incorporating "Bads" and "Goods" in the Measurement of Agricultural Productivity Growth in the U.S," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124585, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Josephson, Anna Leigh & Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob & Florax, Raymond J.G.M. & Chamberlain, Jordan & Heady, Derek, 2012. "How does Population Density affect Agricultural Productivity? Evidence from Ethiopia," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124996, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Wu, Ximing & Zhang, Yu Yvette, 2012. "Nonparametric Estimation of Crop Yield Distributions: A Panel Data Approach," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124630, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Lubomir Lizal & Kamil Galu??????k, 2012. "The Impact of Capital Measurement Error Correction on Firm-Level Production Function Estimation," William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series wp1026, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan.
• Nossal, Katarina, 2012. "Innovative capacity and productivity: an empirical analysis of Australian grain growers," 2012 Conference (56th), February 7-10, 2012, Fremantle, Australia 124353, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
• Nedelea, I. Cristian & Fannin, James Matthew, 2012. "Are Critical Access Hospitals Less Efficient than Non-Converting, Prospectively Paid Rural Hospitals?," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124670, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Rogge, Nicky & Van Reeth, Daam & Van Puyenbroeck, Tom, 2012. "Performance evaluation of Tour de France cycling teams using Data Envelopment Analysis," Working Papers 2012/12, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Faculteit Economie en Management.
• Pieralli, Simone, 2012. "Sources of measured agricultural yield difference," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124771, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Warr, Peter G., 2012. "Research and agricultural productivity in Indonesia," 2012 Conference (56th), February 7-10, 2012, Fremantle, Australia 124475, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
• Yeager, Elizabeth A. & Langemeier, Michael R., 2012. "Economic Efficiency Adjusted for Risk Preferences," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124012, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• An, Henry, 2012. "Complementarities in Production Technologies: An Empirical Analysis of the Dairy Industry," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124653, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Eleonora Bartoloni & Maurizio Baussola, 2012. "Financial performance in manufacturing firms: a comparison between parametric and non parametric approaches," DISCE - Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali dises1282, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche (DISCE).
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• Bjornsen, Hild-Marte & Mishra, Ashok K., 2012. "Off-farm Employment and Farming Efficiency in Modern Agriculture: A Dynamic Panel Analysis," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124742, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Hu, Wu-Yueh, 2012. "Effect of Contract Farming on the Farmers' Average Return - The Case of the Grain Industry in the U.S.A," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124659, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Sneeringer, Stacy E. & Key, Nigel D., 2012. "The Potential Effects of Climate Change on the Productivity of U.S. Dairies," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 125045, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Sauer, Johannes & Walsh, John & Zilberman, David, 2012. "Producer Behaviour and Agri-Environmental Policies: A Directional Distance based Matching Approach," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124877, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Reynolds, Travis William & Anderson, C. Leigh & Gugerty, Mary Kay, 2012. "Is there a Minimum Required Landholding for Food and Nutritional Self-Sufficiency?," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124796, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• New, Robert, 2012. "Management changes and vessel-level technical efficiency in the Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery: a stochastic frontier analysis," 2012 Conference (56th), February 7-10, 2012, Fremantle, Australia 124349, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
• Cheshire, Paul C. & Hilber, Christian & Kaplanis, Ioannis, 2012. "Land use regulation and productivity - Land matters: Evidence from a UK Supermarket chain," Working Papers 2072/196650, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Economics.
• Motamed, Mesbah J. & Florax, Raymond J.G.M. & Masters, William A., 2012. "Borders and Barriers: Spatial Analysis of Agricultural Output Spillovers at the Grid Cell Level," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124790, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Michler, Jeffrey D. & Shively, Gerald E., 2012. "Tenure and Technical Efficiency Among Philippine Rice Farmers," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124691, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Mugera, Amin W. & Zereyesus, Yacob Abrehe, 2012. "The Impact of Climate Variability on the Production Efficiency and Incomes of Kansas Farms," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124695, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Carlberg, Eric & Kostandini, Genti & Dankyi, Awere, 2012. "The Effects of Integrated Pest Management Techniques (IPM) Farmer Field Schools on Groundnut Productivity: Evidence from Ghana," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124876, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
• Neil Dias Karunaratne, 2012. "Total Factor Productivity & Foreign direct investment in OECD countries - A Paneldata Econometric Analysis," Discussion Papers Series 465, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
• Tim Coelli & Axel Gautier & Sergio Perelman & Roxana Saplacan-Pop, 2012. "Estimating the cost of improving quality in electric distribution: a parametruc distance function approach," CREPP Working Papers 1202, Centre de Recherche en Economie Publique et de la Population (CREPP) (Research Center on Public and Population Economics) HEC-Management School, University of Liège.
• Vu, Yen Hoang & Meyers, William H., 2012. "An Evaluation of technical efficiency of small farms households in Chuong My District, Ha Tay Province, Vietnam," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124694, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.