In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

Purpose Total factor productivity (TFP) has become a prominent concept in agriculture
economics and policy over the last three decades. The main aim of this paper is to obtain a …

Productivity is an always-hotly-debated issue within the EU agricultural policymaking,
particularly concerning the effect of subsidies distributed via the Common Agricultural Policy …

Sustainability transitions are commonly considered impossible without regime change.
Theoretical work on regime change has mainly focused on niches and landscapes and less …

As an important foundation of economic and social development, the increase of grain
production efficiency contributes to the steady growth of food output. In this paper, from the …

Environmental regulation is essential to promote green and sustainable development in
dairy farming. Nevertheless, limited studies have focused on the impact of environmental …

The question of the sources of agricultural competitiveness is widely discussed on the farm
and sectoral levels in the European Union. This paper assesses the competitiveness of the …

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 …

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 …