D, Mayen Carlos; Balagtas Joseph V.; Alexander Corinne E. - In: Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 7 (2009) 1, pp. 1-17
With the exception of Azzam and Skinner (2007), the economic literature on farm structure has largely neglected issues of vertical organization of the farm. In this article we estimate a multi-stage, multi-output cost function in order to measure vertical economies of scope in organic and...