Uma análise translog sobre mudança tecnológica e efeitos de escala: um caso de modernização ineficiente

Abstract

This article explains in detail the main Properties of the translog cost function, that is used, in its factor-augmenting version, to estimate the patterns of technological change in dairy farming of a. Sao Paulo region. The study's main conclusions are that "Hicksbiased" technical change (labor saving and cash-feed using), has taken place, at a rate of 2,7%. but this was compensated by perverse interactive scale effects, at a rate of 5,5%. The net effect was the presence of a technological retrocession, at a rate of 2,8% per year.