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Provedor de dados: | Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
País: | United States
Título: | Economies of Scale in the Floriculture Industry
Autores: | Schumacher,   Sara K.; Marsh,   Thomas L.
Data: | 2008-09-16
Ano: | 2003
Palavras-chave: | Duality; Economies of scale; Floriculture; Nonprice variables; Q12; C31; D20.
Resumo: | This study investigated the cost structure of the floriculture industry in the United States.  Economies of scale and input elasticities were estimated with a normalized quadratic cost function.  Results suggest that economies of scale exist in the floriculture industry.  As producers become large and more automated, they have a cost advantage relative to smaller producers who are producing the same output product mix.  The existence of economies of scale suggests that average grower size can increase in the future as growers increase in size to take advantage of cost efficiencies.
Tipo: | Journal Article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/43145
Relação: | Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics&gt;Volume 35, Number 03, December 2003
Formato: | 11