A Reduced-Form Model for Dynamic Efficiency Measurement: Application to Dairy Farms in Germany and The Netherlands

Grigorios Emvalomatis, Spiro Stefanou and Alfons Oude Lansink ()

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2010, vol. 93, issue 1, 161-174

Abstract: The stochastic distance function model is extended to allow for the inefficiency component of the error term to be autocorrelated, as implied by a dynamic model of firm behavior. The autocorrelation parameter can then be interpreted as a measure of the persistence of inefficiency. The model is viewed from a state-space perspective, and Kalman filtering techniques are proposed for estimation. The model is applied to two panels of dairy farms from Germany and the Netherlands. The results suggest a very high degree of persistence of inefficiency through time. Copyright 2010, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2010
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