The subject of discussion is health care production functions. The parametric two-factor Cobb–Douglas and transcendental logarithmic (translog) production functions are frequently used. However, empirical and theoretical work has often questioned the validity of the parametric Cobb–Douglas and translog as a model for the production of health care. The aim of this study is to propose a new flexi...

The aim of this study is to investigate the context by which veterinary services may affect technical efficiency (TE) of Iranian dairy farms. A data envelopment analysis (DEA) was applied to a random sample of 840 dairy farms from six provinces across Iran to estimate regional frontier and metafrontier production functions and also to calculate corresponding TE of these farms. The relationship ...

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 study co...

Introduction: The impact of Fadama III programme on the efficiency levels farmers in Kogi state, Nigeria was investigated.
 Materials and methods: Primary data were obtained with a questionnaire administered to 382 respondents selected through stratified random sampling procedure. Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production cost functions employed analyses. resulting estimates for benefici...

The current paper proposes analytical solution of the problem optimal allocation resources in game two parties, based on production function Cobb-Douglas with constant returns under changing scale production. Edgeworth box is used to derive main scientific findings this research, namely: analytic representation Contract Curve; Community indifference curve, a possibility frontier curve function,...

the study was conducted to indicate the determinants of technical efficiency of the dairy farmers in ada’a district of oromia state, ethiopia. the study was arranged in four purposively selected peasant associations of the peri-urban and four kebeles of the urban dairy production sub-systems from which thirty dairy farmers were selected randomly. a total of two hundred forty respondents were pe...