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标题：Technical efficiency in the Spanish agrofood industry
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作者：Apezteguia, Belen Iraizoz ; Garate, Manuel Rapun
期刊名称：Journal of Agribusiness
印刷版ISSN：0738-8950
出版年度：1997
页码：179-189
出版社：Journal of Agribusiness
摘要：This study estimates frontier production functions with cross-section data for the Spanish agrofood industry by using deterministic and stochastic parametric approaches. We compute the individual technical efficiency for each firm, compare the results and explain the relationship between technical efficiency and other relevant quantitative variables. The results indicate that the Spanish agrofood industry has a level of efficiency between 68% and 93%; which means that it is potentially capable of increasing production without increasing its consumption of inputs. This efficiency level is positively related to factor productivity and unitary labour costs.
关键词：Spanish agrofood industry;Technical efficiency;Stochastic frontier