Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Measuring Irrigation Water Efficiency with a Stochastic Production Frontier

  • Published:
Environmental and Resource Economics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Aigner, D. J., C. A. K. Lovell and P. Schmidt (1977), ‘Formulation and Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Production Function Models’ Journal of Econometrics 6, 21-37.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Akridge, J. T. (1989), ‘Measuring Productive Efficiency in Multiple Product Agribusiness Firms: A Dual Approach’ American Journal of Agricultural Economics 71, 116-125.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Allan, T. (1999), ‘Productive Efficiency and Allocative Efficiency: Why Better Water Management May Not Solve the Problem’ Agricultural Water Management 40, 71-75.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Atkinson, S. E. and C. Cornwell (1994), ‘Estimation of Output and Input Technical Efficiency using a Flexible Functional Form and Panel Data’ International Economic Review 35, 245-255.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Battese, G. E. and T. J. Coelli (1995), ‘A Model for Technical Inefficiency Effects in a Stochastic Frontier Production Function for Panel Data’ Empirical Economics 20, 325-332.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Coelli, T. J. (1992), ‘A Computer Program for Frontier Production Function Estimation: Frontier Version 2.0’ Economics Letters 39, 29-32.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Coelli, T. J. (1995), ‘A Monte-Carlo Analysis of the Stochastic Frontier Production Function’ Journal of Productivity Analysis 6, 247-268.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Färe, R. and C. A. K. Lovell (1978), ‘Measuring the Technical Efficiency of Production’ Journal of Economic Theory 19, 150-162.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Farrell, M. J. (1957), ‘The Measurement of Productive Efficiency’ Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series A 120, 253-281.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kodde, D. A. and F. C. Palm (1986), ‘Wald Criteria for Jointly Testing Equality and Inequality Restrictions’ Econometrica 54, 1243-1248.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kopp, R. J. (1981), ‘The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: A Reconsideration’ Quarterly Journal of Economics 96, 477-503.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kumbhakar, S. C. and Lovell, C. A. K. (2000), Stochastic Frontier Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kumbhakar, S. C., S. Ghosh and J. T. McGuckin (1991), ‘A Generalised Production Frontier Approach for Estimating Determinants of Inefficiency in U.S. Dairy Farms’ Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 9, 279-286.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McGockin, J. T., N. Gollehon and S. Ghosh (1992), ‘Water Conservation in Irrigated Agriculture: A Stochastic Production Frontier Model’ Water Resources Research 28, 305-312.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Omezzine, A. and l. Zaibet (1998), ‘Management of Modern Irrigation Systems in Oman: Allocative vs Irrigation Efficiency’ Agricultural Water Management 37, 99-107.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Reifschneider, D. and R. Stevenson (1991), Systematic Departures from the Frontier: A Framework for the Analysis of Firm Inefficiency' International Economic Review 32, 715-723.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Reinhard, S., C. A. K. Lovell and G. J. Thijssen (1999), ‘Econometric Estimation of Technical and Environmental Efficiency: An Application to Dutch Dairy Farms’ American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81, 44-60.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stevenson, R. E. (1980), ‘Likelihood Functions for Generalised Stochastic Frontier Estimation’ Journal of Econometrics 13, 58-66.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tauer, L. W. (1995), ‘Age and Farmer Productivity’ Review of Agricultural Economics 17, 63-69.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of International & European Economic & Political Studies, University of Macedonia, Greece

    G. Karagiannis

  2. Department of Economics, University of Crete, Greece

    V. Tzouvelekas & A. Xepapadeas

Authors
  1. G. Karagiannis
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. V. Tzouvelekas
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. A. Xepapadeas
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Karagiannis, G., Tzouvelekas, V. & Xepapadeas, A. Measuring Irrigation Water Efficiency with a Stochastic Production Frontier. Environ Resource Econ 26, 57–72 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025625402762

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025625402762

Keywords

Search

Navigation