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| Title: | How "efficient" are dairy farms in mountain areas? |
| Authors: | Ortner, Karl M. |
| Keywords: | DEA
efficiency
dairy farms |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | Pure Technical Efficiency scores of Austrian
dairy farms are estimated econometrically on the
basis of data envelopment analysis and bootstrapping. In
a second stage, using the same assumptions on the
distribution of error terms, the distances of farms to
their production possibility curve are estimated as
functions of farm attributes. Since some of these
attributes refer to natural conditions which are more or
less unfavourable, the farms in the sample are facing
individual frontiers. The distinction between sectorial
and individual frontiers gives rise to a distinction
between “overall” and “firm-level” efficiency. Using
overall efficiency for the calculation of possible savings
from a move to the frontier will overestimate these
savings and underestimate the efficiency of a farm
relative to the conditions in which it operates. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/44371 |
| Institution/Association: | European Association of Agricultural Economists>2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium |
| Total Pages: | 5 |
| Collections: | 2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium
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