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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Explaining differences in farms efficiencies in Polish agriculture
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| Autores: |
Hockmann, Heinrich
Pieniadz, Agata
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| Data: |
2009-06-15
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| Ano: |
2009
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| Palavras-chave: |
SFA
Random component model
Poland
Agriculture
Firm heterogeneity
Farm Management
Labor and Human Capital
Production Economics
Productivity Analysis
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Q12
C23
D24
L23
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| Resumo: |
This paper deals with the estimation of a random coefficient model. The virtue of this approach is that it considers firm heterogeneity, which conventional SFA models do not. When the model is applied to Polish farms, the results indicate that the conventional random and fixed effect models overestimate the potential production increases due to the reduction of inefficiency. Additionally, our findings provide evidence of the importance of input quality for efficiency analysis. Moreover, the results indicate that farm heterogeneity is a significant determinant of agricultural production. We found that differences in productivity between the farms can partly be attributed to farm size, degree of integration in the product markets and incurred transaction costs.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/51051
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| Relação: |
International Association of Agricultural Economists>2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China
Contributed Paper
340
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| Formato: |
13
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