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Structural Change in Transition: A Role for Organizational Legitimacy? Evidence from Czech Agriculture

Curtiss, Jarmila; Brümmer, Bernhard; Medonos, Tomas; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

Market liberalization in Central and Eastern Europe was targeted at establishing incentives that would improve economic … relationship with technical efficiency using a distance function approach is analyzed for the case of Czech agriculture. Contrary …, its effect on technical efficiency depends on whether such legitimacy efforts are valued by stakeholders or understood as …

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Productivity and Subsidies in European Union Countries: An Analysis for Dairy Farms Using Input Distance Frontiers

Latruffe, Laure; Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.; Moreira, Victor H. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

The major objective of this paper is to examine the association between agricultural subsidies and farm efficiency … country. The key results show high average technical efficiency (TE) ranging from 91.8% to 94.9%, average rates of …

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Small U.S. Dairy Farms: Can They Compete?

Gillespie, Jeffrey M.; Nehring, Richard F.; Sandretto, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

net returns, scale efficiency, and technical efficiency associated with the systems across different operation sizes. We … economic measures – technical efficiency, various profitability measures, and returns to scale. …

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The relationship between farm size and productivity: empirical evidence from the Nepalese mid-hills

Thapa, Sridhar - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

This paper examines the farm size and productivity relationship using data from Nepalese mid hills. The household data used has been drawn from a survey conducted by the author and financed by the Norwegian University of Life Science. The analysis uses models both allowing for and not allowing...

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Input Substitution in the Spanish Food Industry

Alarcón, Silverio - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

Firm panel data sets over the period 1993 to 2002 are used to estimate translog production functions with labour, capital and material inputs for 9 Spanish food industries. To tackle the endogeneity of the regressors, the generalized method of moments estimations is employed. The specification...

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The Economic Organizations of Short Supply Chains

Fondse, Mirjam; Wubben, Emiel F.M.; Kortstee, Harry; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012

Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are economic organizations which can contribute to rural development. We propose a first analysis of their main features and suggest a way for analysing them through the lens of organizational economics. SFSCs are based on proximity between consumers and...

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The Cost Function Structure of Dutch Dairy Farms: Effects of Quota abolition and Price Volatility

Samson, G.S.; Gardebroek, Koos; Jongeneel, Roelof A. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012

This paper investigates potential impacts on milk production of Dutch dairy farms if feed prices increase, milk prices decrease and milk quotas are abolished. A quadratic cost function is estimated using panel data on individual dairy farms of the Dutch FADN. Marginal costs and revenues are...

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Territory and innovation behaviour in agri-food firms: does rurality matter?

Garcia Alvarez-Coque, Jose-Maria; Lopez-Garcia Usach, T.; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012

Innovation behaviour of agri-food firms depends on firm structure but also on the characteristics of the territory in which they are established. Spatial considerations are important to determine the propensity of a firm to innovate. Using a database of innovative and non-innovative agro-food...

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Supply Chain Management in the Life Science Sector: Does Trust Play a Role?

Hausen, Tobias; Fritz, Melanie - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2006

Supply chain management has emerged as cross functional, cross company concept to improve coordination of entire value chains through coordinated actions of all companies in the value chain. It has received a major push from the availability of Internet-based information and communication...

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Bargaining structures in French dairy sector and impact of policy reforms

Yu, Jianyu - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

The recent CAP reform to reduce gradually the intervention price of some industry products induces changes in both the raw milk price schemes and the bargaining structures in the French dairy sector. In this article, we develop a bargaining model to investigate the reason of current and...

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