Dynamic Productivity Growth in the Spanish Meat Industry

Effect of Food Regulation on the Spanish Food Processing Industry: A Dynamic Productivity Analysis

This article develops the decomposition of the dynamic Luenberger productivity growth indicator into dynamic technical change, dynamic technical inefficiency change and dynamic scale inefficiency change in the dynamic directional distance function context using Data Envelopment Analysis. These results are used to investigate for the Spanish food processing industry the extent to which dynamic p...

Analyzing the impact of investment spikes on dynamic productivity growth ¬リニ

Firm-level data usually show that a large portion of firm-level investment takes place in a few investment episodes. This paper assesses productivity growth and its components in production framework that accounts for the dynamics of capital adjustment and relates this to investment spikes using firm-level data of the Spanish meat processing industry over the period 2000–2010. Using the method ...

The Impact of the 2008 Economic Crisis on Dynamic Productivity Growth of the Spanish Food Manufacturing Industry. An Impulse Response Analysis

The Efficacy of Plant based Diets on Growth Potential, Energy Utilization, Nutrient Digestibility, Leg Bone Development and Litter Quality of Meat Chickens

Both plant and animal ingredients are used commonly to formulate balanced diets for poultry. Although many changes have been occurred in the genetics, nutrition and feeding of modern meat chickens, free selection and indiscriminate uses of feedstuffs for the non-ruminant animal diets can be hazardous due to the emerging threat of diseases outbreak via animal by-products. Besides this, many othe...

Positioning the Beef Industry for the Future

Gary W. Brester Associate Professor Dramatic changes in productivity, product developments, and meat product promotion have influenced consumer demand for meat. Although the beef industry has experienced increases in production efficiency, primary competing sectors (i.e., pork and poultry) have experienced even larger productivity gains. In addition, the pork sector appears well positioned for ...