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The Performance of Private and Cooperative Socialist Organization: Postwar Yugoslav Agriculture

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Socialist enterprises in Yugoslav agriculture show higher levels of productivity than private producers. The author examines the sources of these differences with total factor productivity estimates based on sectoral aggregate Cobb-Douglas production functions which permit separation of environmental, policy, and organizational effects. The results support the following conclusions: cooperative socialist enterprises are not inherently inefficient and can even outperform private producers; both types of producers were responding to their environment and their differential rates of technological change reflect the different constraints they faced; and socialist enterprises exhibited technology adoption behavior similar to nonsocialist enterprises elsewhere. Copyright 1987 by MIT Press.

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  • Boyd, Michael L, 1987. "The Performance of Private and Cooperative Socialist Organization: Postwar Yugoslav Agriculture," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 69(2), pages 205-214, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:restat:v:69:y:1987:i:2:p:205-14
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    1. Kurkalova, Lyubov A. & Jensen, Helen H., 1998. "Technical Efficiency Of Grain Production In Ukraine," 1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT 20974, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
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    10. Stefan Bojnec & Laure Latruffe, 2007. "Productivity change in Slovenian agriculture during the transition: a comparison of production branches," Post-Print hal-02283465, HAL.

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