Globally, agriculture is a dominant form of human use of land with agro-ecosystems covering
about 40% of the terrestrial surface of the Earth. In this context, the European Union …

We use an appropriate nonparametric two‐step approach on conditional efficiencies to
investigate how foreign direct investment (FDI) and time affect the process of catching up. By …

In recent years, spatial dependence in production frontier models has attracted considerable
research attention. This is explained, among other things, by the observation that in many …

This paper provides an econometric examination of technological knowledge spillovers
among countries by focusing on the issue of error cross‐sectional dependence, particularly …

Efficiency measurement using stochastic frontier models is well established in applied
econometrics. However, no published work seems to be available on efficiency analysis …

This paper develops a new stochastic frontier model that allows for cross-sectional (spatial)
correlation in both the noise and inefficiency terms, which are likely to be of a different …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of ownership structure on
bank performance in EU-15 countries. Specifically, it examines to what extent shareholder …

This study investigates the potential role of variations in technical efficiency as a contributing
factor in providing an explanation for convergence or divergence in Western Europe. To …

This paper compares the cost efficiencies of banks in Western European countries using a
new stochastic metafrontier Fourier flexible cost function for the period 1996–2010. One …

This paper proposes a unified framework for accommodating both time and cross‐sectional
dependence in modelling technical efficiency in stochastic frontier models by combining the …