Econometric Estimation of Technical and Environmental Efficiency: An Application to Dutch Dairy Farms

In this article we estimate the technical and environmental efficiency of a panel of Dutch dairy farms. Nitrogen surplus, arising from the application of excessive amounts of manure and chemical fertilizer, is treated as an environmentally detrimental input. A stochastic translog production frontier is specified to estimate the output-oriented technical efficiency. Environmental efficiency is estimated as the input-oriented technical efficiency of a single input, the nitrogen surplus of each farm. The mean output-oriented technical efficiency is rather high, 0.894, but the mean input-oriented... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Reinhard, Stijn
Lovell, C.A. Knox
Thijssen, Geert
Dokumenttyp: TEXT
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Verlag/Hrsg.: Oxford University Press
Schlagwörter: Articles
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : http://ajae.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/81/1/44