Efficiency analysis with panel data: A study of Portuguese dairy farms

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 79-93

  Hallam, David ^a   Machado, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTUGAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Milk; Panel data; Portugal

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE; DAIRY FARMING; FRONTIER PRODUCTION FUNCTION; LIVESTOCK FARMING; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 0029907475     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/23.1.79     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Aigner, D. J., Lovell, C. A. K. and Schmidt, P. (1977). Formulation and estimation of stochastic frontier production functions. Journal of Econometrics 6: 21-37.
2. Balestra, P. and Nerlove, M. (1966). Pooling cross-section and time-series data in the estimation of a dynamic model: the demand for natural gas. Econometrica 34: 585-612.
3. Battese, G. E. (1992). Frontier production functions and technical efficiency: a survey of empirical applications in agricultural economics. Agricultural Economics 7: 185-208.
4. Battese, G. E. and Coelli, T. J. (1988). Prediction of firm-level technical efficiencies with a generalised frontier production function and panel data. Journal of Econometrics 38: 387-399.
5. - (1992). Frontier production functions, technical efficiency and panel data: with application to paddy farmers in India. Journal of Productivity Analysis 3: 153-169.
6. Bauer, P. W. (1990). Recent developments in the econometric estimation of frontiers. Journal of Econometrics 46: 39-56.
7. Bravo-Ureta, B. E. and Rieger, L. (1990). Alternative production frontier methodologies and dairy farm efficiency. Journal of Agricultural Economics 41: 215-226.
8. - (1991). Dairy farm efficiency measurement using stochastic frontiers and neo-classical duality. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 73: 421-427.
9. Breusch, T. S., Mizon, G. E. and Schmidt, P. (1989). Efficient estimation using panel data. Econometrica 57: 695-700.
10. Byrnes, P., Färe, R., Grosskopf, S. and Kraft, S. (1987). Technical efficiency and size: the case of Illinois grain farms. European Review of Agricultural Economics 14(3): 367-381.
11. Coelli, T. J. (1991). Maximum-likelihood Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Production Functions with Time-varying Technical Efficiency Using the Computer Program, FRONTIER, Version 2.0. Working Papers in Econometrics and Applied Statistics 57, Department of Econometrics, University of New England, Armidale.
12. Cornwell, C., Schmidt, P. and Sickles, R. C. (1990). Production frontiers with cross-sectional and time-series variation in efficiency levels. Journal of Econometrics 46: 185-200.
13. Dawson, P. J. (1985). Measuring technical efficiency from production functions: some further estimates. Journal of Agricultural Economics 36: 31-40.
14. - (1990). Farm efficiency in the England and Wales dairy sector. Oxford Agrarian Studies 18: 35-42.
15. Ferro, M., Coelho, J. P. and Finan, T. (1993). Returns to representative farm systems. In E. Monke (ed.), Structural Change and Small-Farm Agriculture in Northwest Portugal. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 71-100.
16. Finan, T. J. (1987). Intensive agriculture in the Northwest. In S. R. Pearson and E. Monke (eds.), Portuguese Agriculture in Transition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 141-159.
17. Finan, T. J., Fox, R. and de Medeiros, M. (1993). Patterns of production and resource use in the Minho. In E. Monke (ed.), Structural Change and Small-Farm Agriculture in Northwest Portugal. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 46-70.
18. Greene, W. H. (1980). Maximum likelihood estimates of econometric frontier functions. Journal of Econometrics 13: 27-56.
19. - (1990). A gamma-distributed stochastic frontier model. Journal of Econometrics 46: 141-163.
20. Hausman, J. and Taylor, W. E. (1981). Panel data and unobservable individual effects. Econometrica 46: 1377-1398.
21. Jondrow, J., Lovell, C. A. K., Materov, I. S. and Schmidt, P. (1982). On the estimation of technical inefficiency in the stochastic frontier production function model. Journal of Econometrics 19: 233-238.
22. Schmidt, P. (1986). Frontier production functions. Econometric Reviews 4: 289-328.
23. Schmidt, P. and Sickles, R. C. (1984). Production frontiers and panel data. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 2: 367-374.
24. Stevenson, R. E. (1980). Likelihood functions for generalised stochastic frontier estimation. Journal of Econometrics 13: 57-66.
25. Van den Broeck, J. (1988). Stochastic frontier inefficiency and firm size for selected industries of the Belgian manufacturing sector: some new evidence. In A. Dogramaci and R. Färe (eds.), Applications of Modern Production Theory: Efficiency and Productivity. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 59-101.