Technical Efficiency and Technology Gap Ratio in Cocoa Production in Nigeria: A Stochastic Metafrontier-Tobit (Sm-Tobit) Approach

Determinants of technical efficiency in beef cattle production in Kenya: application of the Tobit method

Measuring technological gap ratio of wheat production using StoNED approach to metafrontier

The aim of this paper is to use the concept of the metafrontier function to study the determination of efficiency differentials and Technological Gap Ratio (TGR) on wheat production in Khorasan Razavi province. In this study, we used the metafrontier function and group frontier based on the concept of Stochastic Nonparametric Envelopment of Data analysis (StoNED). The data used in this stud...

Banking Efficiency in China: Application of DEA and Tobit Analysis

In this paper, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and super efficient DEA (SE-DEA) are employed to measure the efficiency of Chinese commercial banks. Incorporating Tobit regression analysis, the determinants of banking efficiency are investigated based on Panel data. Overall, the DEA results show relatively low average efficiency levels and state-owned banks are more inefficient than that of join...

Evaluation of Technical, Allocative and Economic Efficiency of Dairy Cattle Breeding Units in Moghan Agro-Industry with the Approach of Data Envelopment Analysis and Tobit Regression

Efficiency is one of the most important factors in productivity growth, especially in agriculture. The purpose of this study was to measure the technical, allocation and economic efficiency and to identify the factors affecting them in dairy cattle stations of Moghan agro-industry company.The data of this research are related to the year 2017, which gathered its statistics and information by do...

Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Smallholder Cocoa Farmers in Cross River State, Nigeria

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...