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A Comparison of Sfa and Dea Scale Efficiency Estimates: The Case of Greek Fresh Fruits Producers

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  • Giannis Karagiannis

    (Department of International and European Economic & Political Studies, University of Macedonia, 156 Egnatia Str., Thessaloniki 540 06, Greece.)

  • Alexander Sarris

    (Department of Economics, University of Athens, 8 Pesmazoglou Str., Athens 105 59, Greece.)

Abstract

Estimates of technical and scale inefficiencies of fresh fruits farms in Greece during the period 1991-1995 are obtained by using SFA and DEA. The empirical results confirm previous findings for the frequency distributions and the temporal pattern of technical efficiency. Namely, DEA tends to yield a lower mean and a higher variance distribution of technical efficiency than SFA does, and that both tend to generate the same temporal pattern. On the other hand, the corresponding results regarding the estimates of scale efficiency are rather mixed, without being able to provide a decisive pattern between the estimates obtained from the two approaches.

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  • Giannis Karagiannis & Alexander Sarris, 2004. "A Comparison of Sfa and Dea Scale Efficiency Estimates: The Case of Greek Fresh Fruits Producers," Indian Economic Review, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, vol. 39(1), pages 149-168, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:dse:indecr:v:39:y:2004:i:1:p:149-168
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    1. Guha, Pradyut & Mandal, Raju, 2021. "Technical Inefficiency of Maize Farming and Its Determinants in Different Agro-Climatic Regions of Sikkim, India," Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, vol. 0(Number 2), June.
    2. DJOKOTO, Justice Gameli & OWUSU, Victor & AWUNYO-VITOR, Dadson, 2020. "Is Organic Agriculture More Scale Efficient Than Conventional Agriculture? The Case Of Cocoa Cultivation In Ghana," Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics (RAAE), Faculty of Economics and Management, Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra, vol. 23(2), October.

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    Keywords

    SFA and DEA; Scale and Technical Efficiency; Greek Fresh Fruits Farms;
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    JEL classification:

    • D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
    • C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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