Funciones de producción, análisis de economías a escala y eficiencia técnica en el eje cafetero colombiano: una aproximación con frontera estocástica

Jorge Andres, Perdomo Calvo and Darrell Lee, Hueth and Jorge Andres, Perdomo Calvo (2011): Funciones de producción, análisis de economías a escala y eficiencia técnica en el eje cafetero colombiano: una aproximación con frontera estocástica. Published in: Revista Colombiana de Estadística , Vol. 2, No. 34 (June 2011): pp. 377-402.

Abstract

This article is an empirical study about flexible and conventional functional forms of coffee production, minflex Laurent Translog function econometrically has been established in Colombia coffee zone for the farm size (smallholders, medium and large farms, general sector), using a stochastic frontier model through standard maximum likelihood method. Likewise, their returns to scale and technical efficiency were derived.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Estimation of the Production Functional Form, Returns to Scale and Technical Efficiency in Colombian Coffee Zone by Means Stochastic Frontier
• Language: Spanish
• Keywords: Elasticity; Functional form; Maximum likelihood estimation; Production function; Stochastic regression
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C8 - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology ; Computer Programs > C81 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data ; Data Access; D - Microeconomics > D2 - Production and Organizations > D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q1 - Agriculture > Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets

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