Advanced analysis of efficiency of Lithuanian agricultural sector: methodologies and applications

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Advanced analysis of efficiency of Lithuanian agricultural sector: methodologies and applications
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Vilnius : Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics, 2015.
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478 p
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Abbreviations — Introduction — 1. Preliminaries for the efficiency analysis: 1. 1. State-of-the-art of the agricultural Efficiency research; 1. 2. Definitions and measures of efficiency; 1. 3. Frontier models for efficiency anglysis — 2. Research background: lithuanian agriculture: 2. 1. Agriculture in Lithuania; 2. 2. Efficiency and productivity change across the economic sectors in Lithuania — 3. Farm efficiency and its determinants: 3. 1. Technical efficiency and expansion of Lithuanian family farms; 3. 2. Economic efficiency and its determinants; 3. 3. A non-parametric analysis of the determinants and patterns of family farm efficiency; 3. 4. Estimation of the efficiency via the order- m frontiers; 3. 5. Estimation of the efficiency via the order- α frontiers; 3. 6. Fuzzy FDH; 3. 7. Analysing the determinants of Lithuanian family farm performance: a double bootstrap inference; 3. 8. Conditional efficiency measurement — 4. Technology shifts in Lithuanian family farms: 4. 1. The bootstrapped malmquist indices; 4. 2. Productivity change with the sequential technology; 4. 3. Application of the hicks–moorsteen index; 4. 4. The sources of the total factor productivity growth in Lithuanian family farms — 5. Analysing the underlying productive technology: 5. 1. Application of the bias-corrected malmquist indices; 5. 2. Returns to scale in the Lithuanian family farms: a qualitative approach; 5. 3. Returns to scale in the Lithuanian family farms: a quantitative approach; 5. 4. Optimal farm size based on the stochastic production function; 5. 5. Multi-directional program efficiency: the case of Lithuanian family farms; 5. 6. Context-dependent assessment of the efficiency of Lithuanian family farms —6. Resource use efficiency at the sectoral level: 6. 1. Decoupling in lithuanian agricultural sector; 6. 2. GHG emission efficiency in Lithuanian economy — General conclusions — References — Annex A. Abbreviations and initial data for multi-criteria assessment — Annex B. Partial regression plots for the output order-m efficiency measures — Annex C. Descriptive statistics — Abstract — Anotacija.
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LTMonografijoje apibendrinami autorių atlikti tyrimai ūkininkų ūkių efektyvumo, išteklių ekonomikos ir žemės ūkio politikos srityse. Vienas iš svarbiausių tyrimo tikslų – pasiūlius integruotą Lietuvos ūkininkų ūkių gamybinio efektyvumo matavimo ir analizės metodiką, numatyti atitinkamas žemės ūkio efektyvumo didinimo kryptis. Pasiūlyta metodika remiasi neparametriniais ribiniais metodais. Tikslui pasiekti keliami šie uždaviniai: 1) pristatyti efektyvumo analizės praktiką ir mokslinio tyrimo metodiką; 2) pasiūlyti žemės ūkio efektyvumo analizei tinkamus metodus; 3) įvertinti Lietuvos ūkininkų ūkių veiklos efektyvumą taikant neparametrinius metodus; 4) atlikti technologijos, būdingos nagrinėjamam sektoriui, ir jos pokyčių analizę; 5) kiekybiškai įvertinti efektyvumo ir produktyvumo veiksnių poveikį; 6) įvertinti išteklių panaudojimo žemės ūkio sektoriuje tendencijas. Efektyvumo analizė remiasi neoklasikine gamybos teorija. Tyrimui daugiausia naudojamas neparametrinis metodas, t. y. duomenų apgaubties analizė (DEA). Pastarasis metodas įgyvendinamas tiesinio programavimo modelių pagalba. Nuokrypiams atsparios gamybos ribos įvertinamos taikant saviranką ir Monte Karlo simuliaciją. Siekiant atsižvelgti į neapibrėžtumą, taikoma neraiškiųjų skaičių teorija. Programinis (ūkininkavimo tipų) efektyvumas vertinamas taikant daugiakryptę efektyvumo analizę (MEA) ir meta-ribos požiūrį. Bendrojo produktyvumo pokyčių analizė remiasi bendrojo produktyvumo indeksais, kurie apskaičiuojami DEA pagalba. Gautieji rezultatai yra analizuojami taikant regresijos modelius (nupjauta regresija, panelinė regresija), daugiamatės statistikos metodais (sankaupų analizė, dauginė atitikties analizė).

ENThe monograph summarizes the researches of the authors in the fiels of family farm efficiency, resource economics, and agricultural policy. The foremost aim of the research is to develop an integrated framework for measurement and analysis the productive efficiency of Lithuanian family farms and identify the related implications for efficiency improvement. The proposed framework is mainly based on the non-parametric frontier methods. Object of the research is Lithuanian family farms reporting to the Farm Accountancy Data Network. The research features both empirical and theoretical novelty in that it develops some new techniques for efficiency analysis and employs them to analyse the performance of Lithuanian family farms. The efficiency analysis rests on the neoclassical production theory. The research is mainly based on the non-parametric technique, viz. DEA. The latter technique is implemented by the means of the linear programming. The robust production frontiers are estimated via the bootstrapping and Monte Carlo simulations. The uncertainty is dealt with by the means of the fuzzy numbers. The program (i. e. farming type) efficiency is assessed by utilising the MEA methodology along with the meta-frontier approach. The TFP changes are measured by employing the TFP indices, which are based on the DEA models. The results are analysed by the means of the regression models (truncated regression, panel models) and multivariate statistical methods (namely cluster analysis and multiple correspondence analysis).

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