Productivity change in Polish agriculture: an illustration of a bootstrapping procedure applied to Malmquist indices

Laure Latruffe, Sophia Davidova and Kelvin Balcombe

Post-Communist Economies, 2008, vol. 20, issue 4, 449-460

Abstract: This article illustrates the usefulness of applying bootstrap procedures to total factor productivity Malmquist indices, derived with data envelopment analysis (DEA), for a sample of 250 Polish farms during 1996-2000. The confidence intervals constructed as in Simar and Wilson suggest that the common portrayal of productivity decline in Polish agriculture may be misleading. However, a cluster analysis based on bootstrap confidence intervals reveals that important policy conclusions can be drawn regarding productivity enhancement.

Date: 2008
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