Measuring and explaining scale efficiency with the parametric approach: The case of Greek tobacco growers

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 33, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2005, Pages 441-451

  Karagiannis, Giannis ^a   Sarris, Alexander ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b Food and Agriculture Organization ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greek tobacco producers; Scale and technical efficiency; Stochastic production frontiers

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SCALE EFFECT; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TOBACCO;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745536307     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0864.2005.00084.x     Document Type: Article

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