@article{Lakner:152356,
      recid = {152356},
      author = {Lakner, Sebastian and Brenes Muñoz, Thelma and Aedo,  Edinson Rivera and Brümmer, Bernhard},
      title = {Technical Efficiency in the Chilean Agribusiness Sector –  a Stochastic Meta-Frontier Approach},
      address = {2013-06},
      number = {964-2016-75025},
      pages = {21},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {The Chilean economy is strongly export-oriented, which is  also true for the Chilean agribusiness industry. This  paper
investigates the technical efficiency of the Chilean  food processing industry between 2001 and 2007. We use a  dataset
from the 2,471 of firms in food processing  industry. The observations are from the ‘Annual National  Industrial
Survey’. A stochastic meta-frontier approach is  used in order to analyse the drivers of technical  efficiency. We
include variables capturing the effects of  labour-quality, the extent of export orientation and the  impact of paid
subsidies to the agribusiness firms. Raw  materials and labour have to largest impact on the output,  but with a
different input-intensity for the different  agribusiness sectors. We could show that technical  efficiency is different in
the different agribusiness  sectors and that some sectors (the bakery and the grain &  mill sector) are using a more
productive technology than  the other sectors. Potential impacts on structural change  in the Chilean food processing
industry are discussed. The  paper also shows, that exporting firms in the agribusiness  industries can be described as
more dynamic, achieving  either a higher technical efficiency or a higher  technological change.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/152356},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.152356},
}