An Assessment of the Efficiency of Agribusiness Trucking Companies: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

Saleem Shaik, Albert J. Allen and Joselito K. Estrada

No 35661, 2005 Annual Meeting, February 5-9, 2005, Little Rock, Arkansas from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the issue of efficiency in the U.S. motor carrier industry using DEA and SFA. While both methods used the same variables, the resulting efficiency scores were significantly different. This leads to the question of which method is a better measure of efficiency.

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Pages: 10
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.35661

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