Technical and scale efficiency of crop and livestock farms in Poland: Does specialization matter?

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 281-296

  Latruffe, Laure ^a   Balcombe, Kelvin ^b   Davidova, Sophia ^b   Zawalinska, Katarzyna ^c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Centrum Analiz Społeczno Ekonomicznych   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Farms; Poland; Specialization; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

CROPPING PRACTICE; LAND MARKET; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MARKET TRANSITION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

EID: 33646141078     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2005.00322.x     Document Type: Review

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