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Efficiency Measures in the Agricultural Sector With Applications /

Efficiency Measures in the Agricultural Sector opens with detailed descriptions of measurement techniques such as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), which are often used to support models in analysis of agricultural productivity, based on mathematical programming...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Mendes, Armando (Editor ), L. D. G. Soares da Silva, Emiliana (Editor ), Azevedo Santos, Jorge M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
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  • Contents:
  • Part I Efficiency Measures and Methods
  • 1 Efficiency Measures in the Agricultural Sector: The Beginning
  • 2 Review of Frontier Models and Efficiency Analysis: A Parametric Approach
  • 3 Introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis
  • 4 Superefficiency and Multiplier Adjustment in Data Envelopment Analysis
  • Part II Farm Efficiency
  • 5 An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in Azores Dairy Farms
  • 6 Animal Grazing System Efficiency
  • 7 Technical Efficiency of the Spanish Dairy Processing Industry: Do Size and Exporting Matter?
  • 8 Inefficiency in Animal Production - A Parametric Approach
  • 9 Azorean Agriculture Efficiency by PAR
  • 10 Sustainable Tourism and Agriculture Multifunctionality by PAR: A Variable Selection Approach
  • 11 The Importance of Subsidies in Azorean Dairy Farms Efficiency
  • 12 Multi-Ouput Technical Efficiency in the Olive Oil Industry and its Relation to the Form of Business Organisation
  • 13 Efficiency Assessment: Final Remarks
  • Index.