Decomposing productivity growth allowing efficiency gains and price-induced technical progress

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2000

Authors

Lansink, AO (Author) Other; Elvira Silva (Author) FEP; Stefanou, S (Author) Other

Journal

Title: European Review of Agricultural Economics

Vol. 27 No. 4

Pages: 497-518

ISSN: 0165-1587

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Authenticus ID: P-000-Y92

DOI: 10.1093/erae/27.4.497

Abstract (EN): Time- and firm-specific output technical efficiency measures are generated within a price-induced technological change framework. The firm-specific production frontier incorporates past prices as an argument encouraging innovation and a time trend to account for exogenous technical change. The theoretical model is used to decompose total factor productivity into a scale effect, an efficiency change effect and a technological change effect. Input bias arising from exogenous technical change and price-induced innovation is investigated using a multiple-input measure of biased technical change. The empirical focus is on Dutch pot-plant firms during the period 1979-1995 using the maximum entropy estimation method.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 22