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Mosheim, Robert Allan.

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Efficiency in cooperatives: A case study of the Costa Rican coffee processing sector.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Efficiency in cooperatives: A case study of the Costa Rican coffee processing sector./
Author:	Mosheim, Robert Allan.
Description:	129 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-07, Section: A, page: 2600.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-07A.
Subject:	Economics, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9938197
ISBN:	0599394935

Efficiency in cooperatives: A case study of the Costa Rican coffee processing sector.
Mosheim, Robert Allan.

Efficiency in cooperatives: A case study of the Costa Rican coffee processing sector. - 129 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-07, Section: A, page: 2600.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999.

The objective of this dissertation is to merge two literatures, one dealing with the optimizing cooperative, and another concerned with the notion of production frontiers and their component efficiency measures. This study applies the resulting merged model to data describing the production activities of the Costa Rican coffee processing sector.

ISBN: 0599394935Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017424
Economics, General.

Efficiency in cooperatives: A case study of the Costa Rican coffee processing sector.
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520 $a This dissertation makes several contributions. First, a database of firm-level data on prices, quantities and internal and external characteristics for a set of non-profit, member-owned and for-profit, investor-owned Costa Rican coffee processing firms is assembled. Second, various inefficiency effects models are employed to measure and explain cooperative performance. A variable dividend efficiency model is estimated. Finally, a Cox proportional hazard model is used to show that measured performance mattered to cooperative survival during the period covered by this study, 1988 to 1993, During this period, very low prices for coffee prevailed in the international market.
520 $a Unbalanced panel data frontier methods are used. The functional forms for these models are chosen by means of generalized likelihood ratio hypotheses tests. The inefficiency effects in the various models are: size, organizational type, degree of competition, level of development and experience. Farmer size is modeled as a restriction in production since non-cooperative firms tend to favor larger producers, while cooperatives do not. It is shown that although the cooperative policy of free and voluntary membership imposes a restriction in production, other factors such as size and a lesser degree of competition faced by cooperatives in input markets outweigh this inflexibility.
520 $a Unlike several other studies of cooperatives, Costa Rican coffee-processing firms are found to be more efficient than non-cooperative firms by even, measure except scale efficiency. This is hypothesized to be due to a combination of horizontal and vertical integration economies, an attenuated property rights structure and a mitigated principal-agent problem. By means of formal tests the study finds that efficiency variation in the various models does help explain output variation in the sector and that this can be explained in terms of the hypothesized explanatory variables.
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