Effects of imports on technical efficiency in Russian food industry

Yevhenii Shchetynin ()
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Yevhenii Shchetynin: Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Applied Econometrics, 2015, vol. 37, issue 1, 27-42

Abstract: In literature there is no single answer to the question, whether the growth of imports in industry leads to decrease or to increase the technical efficiency: possible effect of different mechanisms. In this paper we estimate the stochastic production frontier using firm-level data for food industry in 2005–2011, taking into account a possible relationship between changes in imports and firm’s technical efficiency. We use the «Ruslana» (Bureau van Dijk) database, which contains financial information on companies in Russia. Our results show that in food industry technical efficiency is reducing while import share is increasing.

Keywords: stochastic frontier; firms; technical efficiency; food industry; import. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C23 D22 D24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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