Production Organization and Efficiency During Transition: An Empirical Analysis of East German Agriculture
利用前东德数据，比较家庭农场、合伙制企业与集体及国有农场的大型后继组织在转型期的效率差异，发现大型后继组织技术效率较低但差距在缩小，合伙制企业效率最优。
Enterprise restructuring is expected to improve efficiency in transition economies. With data from former East Germany, we compare the efficiency of family farms and partnerships with large-scale successor organizations of the collective and state farms (LSOs). Using parametric and nonparametric techniques, we show that LSOs display lower technical efficiency than do family farms and partnerships but that this difference is small and declining during transition, mainly as a result of structural changes in agriculture. Family farms are not as scale efficient as partnerships and LSOs, and partnerships are superior to all other organizational forms. 2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology