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Farm productivity and agroholdings membership: Farm-level evidence from the Russian Far East
https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2017-8-104-120
Abstract
Does business-group affiliation matter for productivity in Russian agriculture? To address this question we use farm-level data from the Amur region for 2008-2014. We find that total factor productivity is higher for independent corporate farms compared to agro-holdings members. Our findings are robust to the choice of the production functional form as well as to the choice of resource measures.
Keywords
cельскохозяйственные предприятия,
cовокупная фак- торная производительность,
agro-holdings,
Russian business-groups,
total factor productivity,
agriculture,
production function,
Far East
JEL: D24; L22; Q12; Q13
About the Authors
O. Vasilyeva
Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
A. Bilko
Far East State Agricultural University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Vasilyeva O., Bilko A. Farm productivity and agroholdings membership: Farm-level evidence from the Russian Far East. Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2017;(8):104-120. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2017-8-104-120
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