Lawson, Lartey Godwin; Sauer, Johannes; Jensen, Peter V.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007
This study examines the effect of banning antimicrobial growth promoters on efficiency in the production of weaned and … slaughter (finishing) pigs. We focus on the reaction of producers and production efficiency. We evaluate the estimated output … efficiency by evaluating the effects of the ban changes on total factor productivity. To this end we model a multi product shadow …