Frontier Production Functions and Technical Progress: A Study of General Milk Processing in Swedish Dairy Plants

DOI10.2307/1914137zbMath0412.90010OpenAlexW2237902232MaRDI QIDQ4199797

Finn R. Førsund, Lennart Hjalmarsson

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1914137

zbMATH Keywords

technical progresscase studyeconometricsfrontier production functionsfarm managementmilk managementdata from the Swedish economyestimation of economic changeSalter's measures of bias and technical advance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Production models (90B30) Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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