Faculty of Economics and Management of the Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra and the Association of Agricultural Economists in Slovakia
Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics
1336-9261
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SCALE EFFICIENCY IN EUROPEAN PORK PRODUCTION
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Zdenka ZAKOVA KROUPOVA
Lukas CECHURA
The paper analyses scale efficiency in European pork production. The analysis shows significant differences in the exploitation of economies of scale among EU member states. In particular, old member states exhibit increasing returns to scale whereas most new member states show either constant or decreasing returns to scale. The differences among old and new member states are also pronounced from a dynamic perspective: whereas the old member states improved their productivity in pork production through scale efficiency, its impact in new member states was rather negative.
pork production
scale efficiency
total factor productivity
metafrontier analysis
SFA