Farm size and efficiency during transition: Insights from Slovenian farms

Transformations in Business and Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 104-116

  Bojnec, Štefan ^a   Latruffe, Laure ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

Author keywords

Central and Eastern Europe; Data Envelopment Analysis; Efficiency; Family farms; Size; Slovenia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856657146     PISSN: 16484460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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