Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/213032 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Citation: 
[Journal:] Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics [ISSN:] 1336-9261 [Volume:] 18 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Slovak University of Agriculture [Place:] Nitra [Year:] 2015 [Pages:] 51-56
Publisher: 
Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra
Abstract: 
The paper analyses scale efficiency in European pork production. The analysis shows significant differences in the exploitation of economies of scale among EU member states. In particular, old member states exhibit increasing returns to scale whereas most new member states show either constant or decreasing returns to scale. The differences among old and new member states are also pronounced from a dynamic perspective: whereas the old member states improved their productivity in pork production through scale efficiency, its impact in new member states was rather negative.
Subjects: 
pork production
scale efficiency
total factor productivity
metafrontier analysis
SFA
JEL: 
D24
O12
P27
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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