Corporate Farm Performance in Russia, 1991–1995: An Efficiency Analysis

Impact of regional diversity on production potential: an example of Russia

“…The author concluded that an increase in technical effi ciency took place primarily due to the effi cient use of inputs, together with signifi cant technical changes, while a following decrease in effi ciency resulted from state price controls and government subsidies. These results are in line with the fi ndings of Sedik et al (1999), who, in addition, explained the decreasing technical effi ciency scores in the period 1993-95 by price changes for agricultural inputs as well as by subsidising the most ineffi cient farms. Furthermore, from their fi ndings, the authors concluded the more specialised a region is in a particular crop, the more effi cient is the production in this region, i.e.…”

“…In fact, there are several studies that focus on estimating the effi ciency of production at a regional level (Arnade and Gopinath, 2000;Sedik et al, 1999;Sotnikov, 1998). These studies pay attention to changes in technical effi ciency of Russian agricultural production during the years of transition.…”

Dynamics of productivity and technical efficiency in Russian agriculture

“…In addition, although the author detected a substantial change in the importance of different inputs, he could not find any significant effect of technical change. Sedik, Trueblood and Arnade (1999) also studied technical efficiency at the regional level. However, in contrast to Sotnikov's approach, these authors considered only the output from crop production.…”

Transition and Agriculture

“…For example, while the outside imposition of production plans is officially abolished, local authorities continue to influence farm management through informal relationships (Csaki and Lerman, 1997). The inability to restructure farms has caused a decline of farm efficiency (Johnson et al 1994;Sedik et al 1999). …”