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Multiple-Output Production With Undesirable Outputs: An Application to Nitrogen Surplus in Agriculture

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Carmen Fernandez (University of St.Andrews)
Gary Koop (University of Glasgow)
Mark F.J. Steel (University of Kent at Canterbury)

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Many production processes yield both good outputs and undesirable ones (e.g. pollutants). In this paper, we develop a generalization of a stochastic frontier model which is appropriate for such technologies. We discuss efficiency analysis and, in particular, define technical and environmental efficiency in the context of our model. Methods for carrying out Bayesian inference are developed and applied to a panel data set of Dutch dairy farms, where excess nitrogen production constitutes an important environmental problem.

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Date of creation: 06 Jan 2002
Date of revision: 06 Jan 2002
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Keywords: Dairy farm; Efficiency; Environment; Longitudinal data; Stochastic frontier;

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C11 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Bayesian Analysis
C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data
Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets

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