Decomposition of Productivity Growth Using Distance Functions: The Case of Dairy Farms in Three European Countries

Bernhard Brümmer, Thomas Glauben and Geert Thijssen

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2002, vol. 84, issue 3, 628-644

Abstract: Within an output distance function framework, the Total Factor Productivity growth index is decomposed into four components (technical change, technical and allocative efficiency, and scale component). We estimate stochastic translog output distance functions using panel data from dairy farms over the period 1991–94 for three European countries (Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland). Results indicate that the change in the productivity growth index in Germany (+6%) and Poland (−5%) are mainly dictated by the technical change component. In contrast, the productivity growth index in the Netherlands (+3%) is influenced by allocative efficiency components. Copyright 2002, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2002
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