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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Do the Largest Firms Grow the Fastest? The Case of U.S. Dairies
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| Autores: |
Melhim, Almuhanad
O'Donoghue, Erik J.
Shumway, C. Richard
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| Data: |
2007-06-27
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| Ano: |
2007
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| Palavras-chave: |
Livestock Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis
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| Resumo: |
Replaced with revised version of paper 06/29/07.
We analyze growth and diversification of U.S. dairy farms by examining longitudinal changes in ten size cohorts and new entrants through three successive censuses. Gibrats law (random walk) and mean reversion hypotheses of growth are tested and rejected. Growth rates are bimodal with the largest farm cohort growing the fastest. All cohorts become more diversified over time, and smaller farms diversify most rapidly. New entrants are generally large, and they diversify more rapidly than incumbents. These data suggest that scale economies persist even for the largest cohort of dairy farms and that scale economies dominate scope economies for large farms.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
26546
http://purl.umn.edu/9763
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
American Agricultural Economics Association>2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon
Selected Poster Paper 174817
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| Formato: |
28
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