{"id":4881,"date":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/export.maxmaziy.php.nixsolutions.com\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","slug":"agglomeration-externalities-and-technical-efficiency-in-pig-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/agglomeration-externalities-and-technical-efficiency-in-pig-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Agglomeration Externalities and Technical Efficiency in Pig Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The objective of our paper is therefore to assess the effects of agglomeration externalities on the technical efficiency of French pig farms.  This paper employs the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and in a second-stage truncated regression the impact of<br \/>\nagglomeration externalities based on theoretical<br \/>\nexpectations is investigated. Using data about pig activity for 899<br \/>\nFrench farms in 2004, our results showed that farm<br \/>\ntechnical efficiency is as much increased by<br \/>\nconcentration as it is the case for other businesses.<br \/>\nReasons may be knowledge spillovers, labor force<br \/>\nmatching and proximity to upstream and downstream<br \/>\nmarket. By contrast, the analysis did not reveal any<br \/>\nconstrain due to increased land demand following the<br \/>\nenvironmental regulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The objective of our paper is therefore to assess the effects of agglomeration externalities on the technical efficiency of French pig farms. This paper employs the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and in a second-stage truncated regression the impact of agglomeration externalities based on theoretical expectations is investigated. Using data about pig activity for 899 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7023,25689,8882,13816,19216,7026,12670,527,7024,562,2771,10858,14784,14,1635,16262,17743,27282,20911,26223],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-agglomeration","tag-agglomeration-externalities-and-technical-efficiency-in","tag-al","tag-ass","tag-assess","tag-data-envelopment-analysis","tag-down","tag-efficiency","tag-externalities","tag-farms","tag-iron","tag-mark","tag-ness","tag-pig","tag-pig-production","tag-pl","tag-prod","tag-production","tag-t","tag-the-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}