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| Bravo-Ureta,Boris E; Moreira,Víctor H; Arzubi,Amilcar A; Schilder,Ernesto D; Álvarez,Jorge; Molina,Carlos. |
| The progressive liberalization of agricultural markets, along with the threat that imported products can pose to local producers, reveals the importance of productivity growth as a mechanism to improve competitiveness. Technical efficiency measurement is the most studied component of productivity because it can help to generate valuable information for policy formulation and farm level decisions focused on the improvement of farm performance. This study uses unbalanced panel data sets for dairy farms from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, to estimate stochastic production frontier models. These frontiers are then used to estimate economies of size, technological change and technical efficiency. All estimations are based on the Battese and Coelli (1992) model,... |
| Tipo: Journal article |
Palavras-chave: Stochastic frontiers; Dairy farms; Argentina; Chile; Uruguay. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-58392008000400006 |
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