In this study, it was mainly aimed to investigate hazelnut producers’ profit inefficiencies in Turkey, which is the
leader position in the world hazelnut production. For this purpose, the data were gathered from the important
hazelnut production areas, called 1st and 2nd standard areas, and analyzed by using stochastic translog profit
function. For this purpose, stochastic translog profit frontier model was utilized. In the profit inefficiency models;
producer’s age, education level, existence of non-farming income, number of parcels, variety of hazelnut produced
in farm were included as explanatory variables. From the estimation results, firms’ average profit inefficiencies for
1st and 2nd standard areas were calculated as 0.38 and 0.19, respectively. These results emphasize the importance of
existence of allocative and technical inefficiencies of firms.
Hazelnut; Stochastic profit frontier; Profit inefficiency hazelnut stochastic
Birincil Dil | Türkçe |
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Bölüm | Makaleler |
Yazarlar | |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 4 Eylül 2011 |
Gönderilme Tarihi | 10 Temmuz 2010 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2011 Cilt: 17 Sayı: 3 |
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