TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mendes, Armando B.
AU  - Silva, Emiliana 
AU  - Azevedo Santos, Jorge M. 
TI  - Efficiency measures in the agricultural sector
SN  - 9789400757387
U1  - 333.32 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Springer
N1  - Includes index; Efficiency measures in the agricultural sector : the beginning / Emiliana Silva, Armando B. Mendes, and Jorge Santos --
Review of frontier models and efficiency analysis : a parametric approach / Ana Sampaio --
Introduction to data envelopment analysis / Jorge Santos, Elsa Rosário Negas, and Luís Cavique Santos --
Superefficiency and multiplier adjustment in data envelopment analysis / Jorge Santos, Luís Cavique Santos, and Armando B. Mendes --
An application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) in Azores dairy farms / Emiliana Silva, Amílcar Arzubi, and Julio Berbel --
Animal grazing system efficiency / Emiliana Silva, Carlos Santos, and Armando B. Mendes --
Technical efficiency of the Spanish dairy processing industry : do size and exporting matter? / Magdalena Kapelko and Alfons Oude Lansink --
Inefficiency in animal production : a parametric approach / Emiliana Silva and Fátima Venâncio --
Azorean agriculture efficiency by PAR / Armando B. Mendes, Veska Noncheva, and Emiliana Silva --
Sustainable tourism and agriculture multifunctionality by PAR : a variable selection approach / Armando B. Mendes, Veska Noncheva, and Emiliana Silva --
The importance of subsidies in Azorean dairy farms' efficiency / Emiliana Silva and Eusébio Marote --
Multi-output technical efficiency in the olive oil industry and its relation to the form of business organisation / Rafaela Dios-Palomares, José M. Martínez-Paz, and Angel Prieto --
Efficiency assessment : final remarks / Jorge Santos, Emiliana Silva, and Armando B. Mendes
N2  - Adding to our toolkit for improving agricultural efficiency, this volume shows how to deploy techniques such as data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis in crop production, opening up a fruitful new arena that could profit from these methods
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