Scale efficiency in Danish agriculture: An input distance-function approach

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 335-367

  Rasmussen, Svend ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

components of productivity change; farm types; representative panel data; scale efficiency; stochastic frontier

Indexed keywords

SUIDAE;

EID: 77956295672     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: 14643618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbq023     Document Type: Article

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