... and environmental factors affecting the willingness of farmers to contract crop insurance. Second, it reveals the relationship between having crop insurance and technical efficiency of crop producing farms. Design/methodology/approach Probit models of panel data are applied to explore the factors of insurance...

...Aditya R. Khanal; Madhav Regmi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the production and efficiency of rice growers in drought prone areas with special attention given to economic and financial factors. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a parametric stochastic frontier...

...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...