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Production Risk and Technical Inefficiency in Russian Agriculture
Bokusheva, Raushan; Hockmann, Heinrich - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005
This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of possible causes of considerable production variability that characterised Russian agriculture during the last decade. The study investigates production risk and technical inefficiency as two sources that influence production variability....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005476839
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Measuring productivity differentials – An application to milk production in Nordic countries
Sipilainen, Timo; Kuosmanen, Timo; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
The aim of this paper is to analyse the regional productivity differentials on dairy farms in Denmark, Finland and … Sweden. Several methods have been suggested for analysing productivity differentials in agriculture between groups of farms … productivity differentials are considerable in favour of Danish farms. In addition, the Danish technology is not only dominating at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039455
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Production risk in multi-output industries: estimates from Norwegian dairy farms
Tveteras, Ragnar; Flaten, Ola; Lien, Gudbrand D. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
Farmers who produce multiple outputs are portfolio managers in the sense that they use inputs to balance expected economic return and variance of return. This paper estimates the structure of the stochastic multi-output production technology in Norwegian dairy farming, allowing for a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005804855
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Modelling yield risk measures of major crop plants
Kobus, Pawel - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012
The paper deals with the problem of modelling yield risk measures for major crop plants in Poland. Hence, in some cases the gamma distribution offers a better fit to the data than normal distribution, and in addition to linear models, generalized linear models were also used. The research was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010910890
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SUSTAINABLE EFFICIENCY OF FIRMS WHEN NEW SUSTAINABILITY TARGETS ARE INTRODUCED
Mondelaers, Koen; Kuosmanen, Timo; Van Passel, Steven; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
There is a high potential for simultaneously increasing sustainability of the earth system and economic development by removing inefficiencies currently present both at the production input and output side. In this paper a static view on sustainability is employed, by introducing capacity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009326446
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Environmentally harmful by-products in efficiency analysis: An example of nitrogen surplus on Swiss dairy farms
Mamardashvili, Phatima; Jan, Pierrick - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
Beside desirable outputs, farming generates environmentally harmful by-products. In this article, we include nitrogen surplus of farms in the representation of the production technology and assessed performance of farms. We measure environmental efficiency (EE) in the framework of a translog...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124925
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Environmentally harmful by-products in efficiency analysis: An example of nitrogen surplus on Swiss dairy farms
Mamardashvili, Phatima; Jan, Pierrick - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
Beside desirable outputs, farming generates environmentally harmful by-products. In this article, we include nitrogen surplus of farms in the representation of the production technology and assessed performance of farms. We measure environmental efficiency (EE) in the framework of a translog...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125262
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Converting to organic farming in France: Is there a selection problem?
Latruffe, Laure; Nauges, Celine - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
Using a sample of French crop farms during the 1999-2006 period, we test whether less technically efficient farmers are more likely to engage in organic farming in order to benefit from conversion subsidies. Despite some limitations in our data, we find no evidence of such selection effect. On...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201364
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Technical efficiency and environmental pressures of pig farms in Hungary
Latruffe, Laure; Desjeux, Yann; Fogarasi, Jozsef; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
Pig farming is one of the strongest polluters of water resources due to its intensive production techniques and slurry rejection. Several European countries have already introduced environmental regulations aiming at reducing the pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources, but not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201381
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Technical Efficiency in the Sheep Dairy Industry: an Application on the Sardinian (Italy) Sector
Furesi, Roberto; Madau, Fabio A.; Pulina, Pietro - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
improve their productivity by more efficient use of their available technical resources. This paper aims to estimate technical … productivity, given the existing level of technology. A comparative analysis of private firms and cooperatives was also carried out …
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