A Frontier Function Approach to Decompose Agricultural Productivity Growth: The Case of Greece

International Journal of Economic Research, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2004

Posted: 25 Jun 2008

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Anthony N. Rezitis

Agricultural University of Athens - Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development

Kostas Tsiboukas

Agricultural University of Athens - Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development

Stauros Tsoukalas

Agricultural University of Athens - Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development

Date Written: June 25, 2008

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to investigate the relative contribution of input use, technological change and technical efficiency to the production growth of the Greek agricultural sector, using a stochastic production frontier method (Battese and Coelli, 1999) to a panel of 608 farms over the 1992/97 period. A translog functional form is used to represent the production frontier and the maximum likelihood estimation technique is employed to estimate the empirical model. The empirical results show, first, that the average technical efficiency of Greek farms is between 55.2% and 59.7% and, second, that the contribution of technological change and technical efficiency on production growth is positive (0.224% and 0.899% respectively), whereas the contribution of input growth is negative (-3.064%). This study indicates that there is substantial scope for increasing production growth through the improvement of technological change and technical efficiency.

JEL Classification: Q10

Suggested Citation

Rezitis, Anthony N. and Tsiboukas, Kostas and Tsoukalas, Stauros, A Frontier Function Approach to Decompose Agricultural Productivity Growth: The Case of Greece (June 25, 2008). International Journal of Economic Research, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2004, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1151302

Anthony N. Rezitis (Contact Author)

Agricultural University of Athens - Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development ( email )

Athens
Greece

Kostas Tsiboukas

Agricultural University of Athens - Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development ( email )

Athens
Greece

Stauros Tsoukalas

Agricultural University of Athens - Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development ( email )

Athens
Greece

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