..., the primary lender to agricultural cooperatives, to evaluate optimizing behavior of 77 Midwestern agricultural marketing and supply cooperatives from 2014 through 2017. The study uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the weak axioms of cost minimization and profit maximization to identify whether...

... enhancing domestic food supply. Tomáš Ratinger can be contacted at: ratinger@tc.cz 04 03 2019 26 09 2019 16 10 2019 23 10 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Performance Data envelopment analysis...

... to deviate from cost minimization strategies. Design/methodology/approach This study uses the non-parametric technique of data envelopment analysis. Through this method, a non-stochastic cost frontier is constructed where all farms must lie on or above the frontier. This allows for the analysis of how...

...Onelack Choi; Spiro E. Stefanou; Jeffrey R. Stokes A balanced panel data set covering 519 U.S. agricultural banks is constructed for the period 1996S2005. Cost efficiency measures of agricultural banks obtained from stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis are regressed on various...

...Weeratilake Dias; Glenn A. Helmers Nonparametric data envelopment analysis is used to determine productivity and efficiency of agricultural and nonagricultural banks categorized into six different asset size groups. An output‐oriented Malmquist index is estimated and decomposed into its components...