Technical Efficiency in the Chilean Agribusiness Sector

Edinson Rivera Aedo, Sebastian Lakner and Bernhard Brümmer

No 115520, 2011 IAMO Forum, June 23-24, 2011, Halle (Saale), Germany from Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)

Abstract: The reform-process towards a higher world-market orientation has a long tradition in Chile, with all its strengths and weaknesses. The food processing industry is highly competitive on the worldmarket. The following paper investigates the technical efficiency of the Chilean food processing industry between 2001 and 2007. We used a data-set from the 5,941 of firms in food processing industry. The observations are taken of the ‘Annual National Industrial Survey’. The method of stochastic frontier analysis is applied; the heteroscedasticity-model is used in order to analyze the determinants of technical efficiency. We included variables capturing different effects before and after the introduction of a liberalization policy in 2004. Raw materials and labor have to largest impact on the output. We could show that technical efficiency is different in the periods before and after 2004. The region with the highest level of efficiency is the metropolitan region around Santiago de Chile.

Keywords: Agribusiness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.115520

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