THE ECONOMICS OF AGRICULTURAL DECOLLECTIVIZATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
研究中东欧国家农业去集体化的差异，发现家庭农场在阿尔巴尼亚和拉脱维亚占主导，而斯洛伐克、匈牙利和捷克仍以大型组织为主。模型和实证分析表明，相对生产率、要素密集度和私有化程序是解释国别差异的关键因素。
The break-up of large-scale agricultural production units into individually operated farms differs considerably across Central and Eastern European countries. Family farming is not well developed in countries where large-scale successor organizations to the former state and collective farms still dominate, such as Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic. However, family farms are important in Albania and Latvia, where a massive break-up of the collective farms resulted in a domination of small-scale production units. Also within countries there exist wide variations in the decollectivization of different regions and agricultural subsectors. We develop an economic model of decollectivization to explain these variations and derive a series of propositions regarding factors affecting the decollectivization process. Our empirical analysis presents remarkable correlations between decollectivization and our explanatory variables. Specifically, they suggest the importance of relative productivity, factor intensity and privatization procedures in explaining differences between countries in decollectivization.