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Uncovering Productivity Growth in the Disaggregate: Indonesia's Dueling Agricultural Sub-Sectors
Rada, Nicholas E.; Buccola, Steven T.; Fuglie, Keith O. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which exerted Indonesia’s comparative advantage in tropical perennial products. In … the present paper, we ask whether such events have altered Indonesia’s agricultural growth strategy from a food-crop to an … annual-crop sectors. We find overall productivity growth to have been moderate, and suggest that little of it can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020351
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How Inefficient Really Are the Small-Scale Rice Farmers in Eastern India?: Examining the Effects of Microtopography on the Estimation of Technical Efficiency
Fuwa, Nobuhiko; Edmonds, Christopher M.; Banik, Pabitra - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005
We focus on the impact of failing to control for differences in land types defined along toposequence on estimates of farm technical efficiency for small-scale rice farms in eastern India. In contrast with the existing literature, we find that those farms may be considerably more technically...
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The US Agriculture Greenhouse Emissions and Environmental Performance
Kabata, Tshepelayi - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
Replaced with revised version of paper 09/23/11.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021158
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Firm size and trade secret intensity: evidence from the Economic Espionage Act
Searle, Nicola; Reid, Gavin C - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
This paper considers trade secrecy as an appropriation mechanism in the context ofb the US Economic Espionage Act (EEA) 1996. We examine the relation between trade secret intensity and firm size, using a cross section of 95 court cases. The paper builds on extant work in three respects. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878969
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Small is Beautiful? Firm's Size, Prevention & Food Safety.
Rouviere, Elodie; Soubeyran, Raphael - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
The European General Food Law of 2005 and the newly promulgated FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FFSMA) of 2010 ask all food operators to implement preventive efforts. In this article, we explore the link between firm’s size and preventive efforts. We show two main results. First, when there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916546
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Technical Efficiency and the Probability of Bank Failure among Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Banks
Li, Xiaofei; Escalante, Cesar L.; Epperson, James E.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
This study is designed to analyze bank failures from the technical efficiency standpoint under a stochastic cost frontier framework and evaluate the reliability of the technical efficiency measure as a determinant of the financial health of banks and probability to succeed or fail at the height...
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Technical efficiency in small-scale irrigation cooperative and its determinants from the perspective of social capital heterogeneity–the case of northwestern China
Wang, Xin; McIntosh, Christopher S.; Watson, Philip; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Increased attention has recently been given to technical efficiency of small-scale irrigation to achieve food security and increase agricultural development. In this paper, the authors classify irrigation supply management methods as cooperative or non-cooperative, introduce social capital by...
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Correcting for Measurement Error in a Stochastic Frontier Model: A Fishery Context
Burns, Christopher - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Using data from the Mid-Atlantic surfclam fishery, this study examines the effect of measurement error on the analysis of technical efficiency. After specifying a stochastic frontier model and estimating it under naive analysis, a measurement error correction technique known as Simulation...
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Technical efficiency of Kansas arable crop farms: a local maximum likelihood approach
Guesmi, Bouali; Serra, Teresa; Featherstone, Allen M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
The present study uses local maximum likelihood (LML) methods recently proposed by Kumbhakar et al. (2007) to assess the technical efficiency of arable crop Kansas farms. LML techniques overcome the most relevant limitations associated to mainstream parametric stochastic frontier models. Results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916207
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Off-farm Work, Technical Efficiency, and Production Risk: Empirical Evidence from a National Farmer Survey in Taiwan
Chang, Hung-Hao; Wen, Fang-I - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008
The objective of this paper is to investigate the differences in yield production, production efficiency, and yield risk for farmers with and without off-farm work. Using a nationwide survey of Taiwanese rice farmers, we estimate a stochastic production frontier model accommodating the technical...
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