Numerous studies have found that US commercial banks are quite inefficient, and we find that, on average, banks became more technically inefficient between 1984 and 1993. Our analysis of productivity change, however, shows that technological improvements adopted by a few banks pushed out the efficient frontier, and that, on average, commercial banks experienced productivity gains. For banks wit...

Rice farming in swamps, a marginal land, has relatively high risk related to the level of technical efficiency. This research was conducted with aim identifying efficiency and influence factors inefficiency Lakbok Subdistrict, Ciamis District, Indonesia. Simple random sampling used sample size 41 farmers. The analysis carried out using stochastic frontier function. results showed that average 0...


 This study was designed to calculate production efficiency (technical, economic and allocative) determinants of inefficiency in open field tomato Punjab, Pakistan. Simple random sampling used for primary data collection from 70 farmers 2014. Data envelopment analysis explored the mean technical (79.4%), allocative (58.1%) (45.9%) efficiency. It showed capability 21.6 41.9% reduction inpu...

this paper studies the technical efficiency of 12 branches of saman bank over the period 1387-88, relating it to the composition of staff by sex, the ratio of fixed assets to total assets, the age of the branches and the geographic ranking in development indicators of the city where the branch is located in. data envelopment analysis is used to determine the efficiency of branches. the average ...

the purpose of this study is measuring total factor productivity (tfp) growth of sugar beet for different provinces of iran and then decomposing it to the changes in technical change, managerial efficiency change and scale efficiency change. for this purpose we used the data envelopment analysis (dea) method and malmquist productivity index. results showed that average growth of total factor pr...

The agricultural sector in one of the most dynamic industries Brazilian economy and is responsible for about 30% GDP state Pará, located Eastern Amazon region. This mainly due to public policies developed sector, with emphasis on National Policy Technical Assistance Rural Extension (PNATER) Credit, addition conditional cash transfer programs such as Bolsa Família (Family Allowance). Given this ...