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Accounting for unobservables in production models:management and inefficiency [PDF]
This paper explores the role of unobserved managerial ability in production and its relationship with technical efficiency. Previous analyses of managerial ability have been based on strong assumptions about its role in production or on the use of ...
Antonio Álvarez +2 more
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ECONOMETRIC INEFFICIENCY ESTIMATES IN A COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT
Revista Eletrônica de Ciência Administrativa, 2008 <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;">The objective of this paper is to apply a Cobb-Douglas ...
Edward Bernard Bastiaan Rivera Rivera +2 more
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A Brief History of Production Functions [PDF]
This paper gives an outline of evolution of the concept and econometrics of production function, which was one of the central apparatus of neo-classical economics. It shows how the famous Cobb-Douglas production function was indeed invented by von Thunen
Mishra, SK
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Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, 2004 A irrigação iniciada no final da década de sessenta foi a principal responsável pelo marcante desenvolvimento ocorrido no pólo Petrolina/Juazeiro. Com a irrigação chegaram empresas agrícolas para a região, antes voltadas para outras atividades, como a ...
Emanoel de Souza Barros +2 more
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The Cost of Food Safety Technologies in the Meat and Poultry Industries. [PDF]
This paper uses plant-level micro-data from the 2002 Census of Manufactures, Food Safety Inspection Service, and the Economic Research Service in a translog cost function to examine the costs of effort devoted to the performance of sanitation and process
Ollinger, Michael
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An Empirical Analysis of Mark-ups in the Argentine Manufacturing Sector [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper, we estimate mark-ups with plant level production data for Argentina from a structural model of cost-minimizing producers, as proposed by De Loecker and Warzynski (2012). We explore systematic differences across industries and plants.
Brambilla, María Irene +1 more
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TESTING FOR INPUT AND OUTPUT SEPARABILITY IN NEBRASKA AGRICULTURE SECTOR [PDF]
The existence of Weak Separability aggregates of inputs and outputs is tested using a Translog production and input requirement function for the Nebraska Agricultural sector for 1936-1994.
Helmers, Glenn A., Shaik, Saleem
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An analysis of technical performance in Turkish beekeeping farms using Translog Production Function
, 2021 This paper investigates technical efficiencies of beekeeping farms and their determinants, using stochastic production frontier function in Malatya Province of Turkey. Data used in the study were collected from randomly selected 58 beekeepers. For the estimation of farm level technical efficiency coefficients, Stochastic Frontier Analysis method was ...
Uysal, O, Karlidag, S, Gunduz, O
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DETERMINANTS OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN GARI PROCESSING IN DELTA STATE NIGERIA [PDF]
Journal of Central European Agriculture, 2007 In order to determine the technical efficiency of Gari processing in Delta State, Nigeria, panel data were collected over 6 months period from 100 processors, using multi – stage random sampling technique.
C Chukwuji, O Inoni, P Ike
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MODELING THE SOUTH AFRICAN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION STRUCTURE AND FLEXIBILITY OF INPUT SUBSTITUTION [PDF]
This paper evaluates the production structure of the South African agricultural sector for the period 1970-1998, using a translog function. The results show that the production structure is best represented by production technology that is Hicks-neutral ...
Kirsten, Johann F. +3 more
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