Explaining output growth with a heteroscedastic non-neutral production frontier: The case of sheep farms in Greece

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-74

  Karagiannis, Giannis ^a   Tzouvelekas, Vangelis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Primal approach; Scale effect; Stochastic frontier model; TFP decomposition

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 24144487780     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbi004     Document Type: Article

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