Scientific publications

The purpose of this study is to examine the efficiency of the banks in Lithuania by employing the DEA method and evaluate bank performance in a low interest rate environment. The efficiency scores were calculated with a non-parametric frontier input-oriented DEA technique with the variable returns to scale (VRS) and the constant returns to scale (CRS) assumptions. Five alternative models with different input-output combinations were developed, based on production, profitability and intermediation dimensions.

Research background: The increase in the demand for organic products prompts the establishment of green farms. In spite of the large global interest in green farming, scientific literature is not rich in the studies that cover the issues of the factors of green farming. Although previous studies examine different factors of green farming (organic farming), the factors that facilitate or impede the development of green farming, especially at the national level (the case of Lithuania), are hardly considered. In order to fill this gap in the scientific literature, we formulate the following problem of the research: what factors promote green farming?

We propose a new metafrontier, non-radial, biennial Luenberger productivity indicator to evaluate the total factor productivity growth of the Chinese banking sector, during the period of 2004–2012. The bootstrapping approach is also taken into account to introduce the statistical inference of the total factor productivity, and its components. It is found that the overall Chinese banking sector operated well with an average growth rate of 5.4%, where technological progress was the driving force promoting the development of the Chinese banking sector during the earlier studied period, and efficiency gains outperformed technological progress during the later studied period.

Most scholars of rural gender studies do not consider the essential changes in rural economy and life styles, defining rural areas as traditional and conservative. Research is still extremely fragmented into new problems facing the female population in rural areas, those arising from the changes in the lifestyle and the diversified income sources typical of post-industrial rural settlements.

This study focuses on one of mass media forms - television broadcasts, concerned with rural development issues - and its potential to become an accelerator for the emergence of new social movements dealing with rural development or strengthening the existing platforms for collective action in the industrial cultural domain. Empirical study is based on Lithuanian data.

Diana Šumylė, Lina Pareigienė, Erika Ribašauskienė Šumylė, D.; Pareigienė, L.; Ribašauskienė, E. 2017. Structured approach to alternative food initiatives: the case of local food movement in Lithuania, In K. Svels (Ed.), The XXVII ESRS conference : Proceedings of the XXVII European Society for Rural Sociology Conference, Krakow, Poland, 24-27 July 2017. Social innovations in agriculture and local food market (pp. 318-319). Krakow: Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University.

Remeikienė Rita, Gasparėnienė Ligita, Sadeckas, Alius Remeikienė, Rita; Gasparėnienė, Ligita; Sadeckas, Alius. Evaluation of the factors that have the most significant influence on Lithuanian export // Contemporary issues in Economy : 9th international conference on Applied economy, Toruń, Poland, 22-23 June 2017 / edited by Adam P. Balcerzak, Ilona Pietryka. Toruń : Institut of economic research, 2017. DOI: 10.24136/eep.proc.2017.3 (eBook). ISBN 9788365605030. p. 438-445. [DB: EconPapers; RePec].

Remeikienė Rita, Gasparėnienė Ligita Remeikienė, Rita; Gasparėnienė, Ligita. The impact of emigration on the competitiveness of the country: the case of Lithuania // Contemporary issues in Economy : 9th international conference on Applied economy, Toruń, Poland, 22-23 June 2017 / edited by Adam P. Balcerzak, Ilona Pietryka. Toruń : Institut of economic research, 2017. eISBN 9788365605061. p. 446-454. DOI: 10.24136/eep.proc.2017.3 (eBook) [DB: EconPapers; RePec].

Armands Veveris, Vaida Šapolaitė Veveris, A.; Šapolaitė, V. 2017. Accessibility of rural development programme support for small rural farms in Latvia and Lithuania. In Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference “Economic science for rural development” No 44, Jelgava, LLU ESAF, 27-28 April 2017, pp. 345-352. ISSN 1691-3078, ISSN 2255-9930 on line, ISBN 978-9984-48-260-6. [ISI Web of Science, AGRIS, CAB Abstracts, EBSCOHost Academic, Search Complete databases and Google Scholar].

Fausto Cavallaro, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Dalia Streimikiene Cavallaro, F.; Zavadskas, E.K.; Streimikiene, D. 2018. Concentrated solar power (CSP) hybridized systems. Ranking based on an intuitionistic fuzzy multi-criteria algorithm, In Journal of Cleaner Production Vol. 179, 1 April 2018, p. 407-416 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.269 ISSN 0959-6526 [Geographical Abstracts; Engineering Village - GEOBASE; Fluid Abstracts; FLUIDEX; Scopus; Science Citation Index Expanded].