Elvira Silva

Prof. Elvira Silva


Research Focus & Metrics

Academic Career Length

31Years (1996-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 May 2007 in American Journal of Agricultural Economics
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Elvira Silva
SSSpiro E. Stefanou
Spiro E. Stefanou

1 January 2003 in Journal of Productivity Analysis
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ESElvira Silva
Elvira Silva
SSSpiro E. Stefanou
Spiro E. Stefanou

1 January 2004 in Journal of Productivity Analysis
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ALAlfons Oude Lansink
Alfons Oude Lansink
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Elvira Silva

1 April 2003 in Environmental and Resource Economics
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Alfons Oude Lansink
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Elvira Silva

1 May 2001 in Journal of Productivity Analysis
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ALAlfons Oude Lansink
Alfons Oude Lansink
ESElvira Silva
Elvira Silva
SSSpiro E. Stefanou
Spiro E. Stefanou

1 December 2000 in European Review of Agricultural Economics
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ESElvira Silva
Elvira Silva
SSSpiro E. Stefanou
Spiro E. Stefanou
Time- and firm-specific output technical efficiency measures are generated within a price-induced technological change framework. The firm-specific production frontier incorporates past prices as an argument encouraging innovation and a time trend to account for exogenous technical change. The theoretical model is used to decompose total factor productivity into a scale effect, an efficiency change effect and a technological change effect. Input bias arising from exogenous technical change and price-induced innovation is investigated using a multiple-input measure of biased technical change. The empirical focus is on Dutch pot-plant firms during the period 1979-1995 using the maximum entropy estimation method.