Rationalising inefficiency in agricultural production – the case of Swedish dairy agriculture
研究了瑞典奶牛养殖业中看似低效率的生产行为可能源于农民的理性决策，通过分析2013年421个农场的数据支持了理性低效率的存在，对推动农场向高效生产前沿的政策有启示。
Inefficiency in agricultural production is generally interpreted as waste in the use of production factors. We challenge this by (i) providing an explanation for why apparent inefficiency may result, at least partly, from rational production decisions by farmers and (ii) testing this rational inefficiency hypothesis empirically. Based on multidirectional efficiency analysis of production data from 2013 for 421 Swedish dairy farms and statistical analyses of the inefficiency patterns, we provide support for the existence of rational inefficiency. These findings have clear implications for policy schemes aiming at pushing farms towards the efficient production frontier.