... of Ghana. The two-stage double bootstrap DEA approach was used to consistently estimate technical efficiency scores as well as the determinants. Findings The results revealed that, given the current technology, there is substantial yield or productivity gap among the sample of producers in northern...

... decisions. The relationship between efficiency and insurance is investigated with two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) model with double bootstrap using panel data for the 2001 to 2014 period. Findings The results of Probit model estimations show that the education, the size, the indebtedness...

.... Aditya R. Khanal can be contacted at: akhanal1@tnstate.edu 20 07 2016 20 12 2016 27 06 2017 26 07 2017 04 08 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only DEA Efficiency Liquidity Rice production Stochastic...

.... Originality/value – The study represents a novel application and interpretation of a well-known method. The DEA debt possibility frontier can be used to estimate the Debt Development index (DDi) which is a reinterpretation of the Malmquist productivity index [2] (Caves et al., 1982 ; Färe...

... et al. for the analysis of farms. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 In the first stage, the debt ratios are added in a manner consistent with Coelli et al. (2005) . That is, the debt ratios are added as undesirable outputs in the DEA program. Coelli et al...