The agricultural sector remains a cornerstone to Africa's economic transformation and the
achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the sector's …

In order to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, the European Union (EU) promotes
extensive farming. However, identifying such farms across countries and assessing their …

In this article, we assess farms' technical efficiency accounting for their production
heterogeneity and correcting for the potential endogeneity associated with the adoption of …

This paper presents a four-component stochastic frontier model in which the frontier function
is represented by an unknown smooth input distance function, and inefficiency is …

Several studies conducted in various countries have addressed the technical efficiency of
dairies. However, there is a paucity of research on the technical efficiency of dairies in …

The growth of milk production in the Netherlands which followed the abolition of the milk
quota in 2015, put pressure on the sustainable development of dairy farms. In this paper, we …

This article examines the presence of spatial spillovers in farms' dynamic technical
inefficiency scores using Data Envelopment Analysis and a second‐stage spatial truncated …

Efficiency and productivity analysis have been critical in healthcare and economics
literature. Despite the tremendous innovation in methodology and data availability, a …

Agricultural productivity growth can simultaneously increase profit and reduce pollution. Yet,
the impact of productivity growth on both has not been quantified. The objective of our study …

This article presents a novel modeling framework that quantifies spatial spillovers on firm
total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components in a single‐stage setting. A random …