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Productivity Growth, Technical Efficiency, And Returns To Scale In The Washington State Sawmill Industry

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  • TED L. HELVOIGT

    (Department of Forest Resources, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA;
    ECONorthwest Eugene, Oregon 97401, USA)

  • SHAWNA GROSSKOPF

    (Department of Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA)

Abstract

We employed data envelopment analysis (DEA) to examine the technical and scale efficiency of the sawmill industry of Washington State. We found that there is regional variation in the rate of technical efficiency and that for most years the industry in aggregate operated at a point of modest scale inefficiency. In addition, we examined the industry's rate of productivity growth and technical change between the early 1970s and late 1990s using the Malmquist input-oriented productivity index. We found that the industry experienced a modest average annualdeclinein productivity and technical change during the 1970s, but experienced strong productivity growth and technical change during the 1980s and 1990s.

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  • Ted L. Helvoigt & Shawna Grosskopf, 2005. "Productivity Growth, Technical Efficiency, And Returns To Scale In The Washington State Sawmill Industry," International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 4(03), pages 477-490.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijitdm:v:04:y:2005:i:03:n:s0219622005001672
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219622005001672
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    1. Diogo Cunha Ferreira & Rui Cunha Marques, 2016. "Malmquist and Hicks–Moorsteen Productivity Indexes for Clusters Performance Evaluation," International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 15(05), pages 1015-1053, September.
    2. He, Haoran & Weng, Qian, 2012. "Ownership, autonomy, incentives and efficiency: Evidence from the forest product processing industry in China," Journal of Forest Economics, Elsevier, vol. 18(3), pages 177-193.

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