We explore the relationship between precision agriculture (PA) technology adoption and technical efficiency using 2016 USDA Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS). Efficiency gains from PA are likely cumulative, that is, true impact of farming depends on integration complementary tools. To examine benefits different bundles, we perform a two-step analysis. First, use cluster analysis to...

Background Hospitals are highly resource-dependent settings, which spend a large proportion of healthcare financial resources. The analysis of hospital efficiency can provide insight into how scarce resources are used to create health values. This study examines the Technical Efficiency (TE) of 12 teaching hospitals affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) between 1999 and 2...

Article history: Received 1 October 2013 Received in revised form 1 October 2014 Accepted 5 November 2014 Available online 4 February 2015 This paper investigates the effects of software intellectual property rights (IPRs) on the performance of software firms. For this, technical efficiency scores for Korean software firms are examined, and for an empirical analysis, data envelopment analysis (...

This paper conducts a comparative technical efficiency analysis of 21 electricity generation plants (12 private and 9 public) using panel data of 6 years (1998-2003), and two stat-of–the art methodologies: Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The results show a mixed technical and scale efficiency scores for the public and private generation plants. There are ...

We propose a novel nonparametric approach for estimating the production frontier based on data-fitting technique. The proposed allows stochastic noise and provides decision-makers with general flexible estimation procedure to support facilitate decision-making process in context. A major feature of is that completely easy implement. Similar other existing approaches, our results an estimate pie...

How to improve healthcare system’ efficiency has been highly concerned by Chinese government. The objectives of this paper are to establish production function of medical service and analyze returns to scale; to measure technical efficiency; and to highlight possible policy implications of the results for policy makers. Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) is employed in this paper based on data ...

sugar beet is one of the most important crops in khorasan razavi, iran, which plays an important role in the economy of this province. so, it seems to be important to study the efficiency of the crop. to analyze the sugar beet efficiency information, two methods including data envelopment analysis (dea) and stochastic frontier analysis (sfa) methods were used. required data were collected from ...

Many banks are competing to achieve bank cost efficiency for business continuity amidst the competition in banking sector. So need review cost-efficiency regularly. The purpose of this study was analyze determinants efficiency. Variable use size, capital adequacy, return on asset, group bank, credit risk, economic growth, and inflation Indonesia. Determination input output variables using a int...

Although organic rice is a niche market in Pakistan, it has exhibited enormous potential for growth export-oriented production. Since contract farming the leading promoter of production Punjab, improving technical efficiency smallholder farmers through holds sufficient potential. This work examines influence participation on farmers’ using cross-sectional data set 650 respondents. We applied st...