Hirsch, Stefan; Schiefer, Jan; Gschwandtner, Adelina; … - In: Journal of Agricultural Economics 65 (2014) 3, pp. 703-721
type="main" xml:id="jage12061-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This paper decomposes the variance in EU food industry return-on-assets into year, country, industry and firm effects using a hierarchical linear model (HLM). The HLM approach accounts for some of the methodological drawbacks of conventional...</p>