This paper estimates a stochastic production frontier using time-series data for the aggregate Korean economy in 1977-2005 to examine whether public infrastructure stock reduces aggregate technical inefficiency in the gross domestic product. A stochastic production frontier is estimated in first-differenced form, and the one-sided residuals are regressed against the stock of public infrastructu...

This paper examines whether and to what extent off-farm employment affects the technical efficiency of agricultural production. The level of technical efficiency is measured using a stochastic frontier production function approach. We find that there is a positive significant effect of off-farm employment on the level of technical efficiency. We also find that fragmentation of farmland is a bar...

Meat goat enterprise efficiency was estimated using an input distance function (IDF) by applying stochastic production frontier techniques for the southeastern U.S. region. We found increasing returns to scale and scope economies for southeastern U.S. meat goat enterprises. Mean technical efficiency was 0.81. Our results suggest southeastern U.S. meat goat enterprises can be scale efficient if ...

In the context of food security, market-oriented allocation factors under collective ownership system has had a profound impact on agricultural production. As hot issue Household Responsibility System (HRS), mechanism farmland market transaction production efficiency deserves discussion. Based stochastic frontier function model, this paper analyzes transfer farmers’ technical external environme...

The stochastic frontier production model is one of the most used ways to estimate efficiency and productivity. The purpose of this paper was to decompose the sources of total factor productivity (TFP) growth into technological progress, changes in technical efficiency and changes in economies of scale. In this paper, we also used Divisia index in order to estimate production function. A random ...

This paper provides simulation evidence concerning some statistical properties of two different approaches to technical efficiency estimation for multipleoutput production under noisy conditions: The Ray Frontier Approach (RFA) from Löthgren (1997) and DEA+ proposed in Gstach (1996). RFA, unlike earlier approaches in the realm of stochastic frontier analysis, is capable of efficiency estimation...