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Abstract
This paper employs Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic
Frontier Analysis to examine the technical efficiency of the agricultural
sectors of the Central and Eastern European accession Countries
(CEECs) during the period 1998-2001. The results indicate that
the agricultural sectors of many accession countries are both technically
inefficient and scale-inefficient. The analysis of changes in
total factor productivity suggests slow rates of adoption of technical
progress, declining technical efficiency of agricultural enterprises
and, as a result, less efficient use of existing technologies and
resources during the considered time period.