This study illustrates and quantifies how overlooking the impact of weather shocks can affect measurement decomposition agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) change. The underlying technology is represented by a flexible input distance function with quasi-fixed inputs estimated Bayesian methods. Using production data for 16 states in Pacific Region, Central Southern Plains United States,...

the aim of this paper is to investigate the role of producer cooperatives (pcs) on rural development in fars, khorasan, semnan, golestan and hamadan provinces of iran in 2007. more specifically, this paper focuses on the economic aspects and social changes occurred in rural area concerning the cooperatives development. in order to measure quantitatively the effectiveness of economic and social ...

Under the strategy of rural revitalization, development digital inclusive finance is an effective way to alleviate long-standing problem "difficult and expensive financing" in "three areas", inherent requirement for achieving high-quality Chinese agriculture. Based on panel data provinces from 2011 2021, this paper adopts a three-stage SBM-DEA model measure total factor productivity agriculture...

Growth of total factor productivity has contributed 41 per cent of output growth in Indonesian agriculture since 1975. This study examines the extent to which publicly funded agricultural research within Indonesia has contributed to this productivity growth, while allowing for other possible determinants, including spillovers from international agricultural research, extension, weather changes,...

In recent decades, the debate on economic growth has largely focused role of its fundamental causes: institutions, geography, trade, and culture. This study analyses underlying causes agricultural productivity in Europe during second half twentieth century. To determine importance causes, Total Factor Productivity European agriculture was calculated for period 1950-2005 several econometric mode...

Purpose: The study analyses the effects of sovereign credit ratings on financial development in South Africa. This became important considering that country has been receiving negative late.
 Design/Methodology/Approach: Quarterly data for period 1994-2017 was analysed using Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) cointegration model and its associated statistics. Error Correction Model (EC...

The study investigates the impact of financial distress (credit spread) and liquidity crises (TED on size, value, profitability, investment momentum premiums within US Real Estate Investment Trust market. Using daily data from 2001 to 2020, we examine presence, magnitude significance these premiums, along with assessing if are associated higher risk. then employs Auto-regressive distributed lag...

t his study investigates the factors affecting the demand for new residential buildings in urban areas of iran during 1976-2010. the demand function for new residential buildings in urban areas was estimated and then the existence of a long-run relationship among variables of this function was studied using the bounds testing of the autoregressive distributed lag co-integration procedure. the t...