Economic efficiency analysis of the Spanish olive industry
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|Accepted: 2024-09-10
|Published: 2025-06-16
Copyright (c) 2025 Fernando Vidal, Inmaculada Marqués, Francisco Javier Ribal, Jesús Tadeo Pastor
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olive oil, Data Envelopment Analysis, efficiency, olive oil industry, company size
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The work addresses an economic efficiency analysis of the Spanish olive industry and the factors that can influence it. The analysis has been carried out applying the non-parametric methodology of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The sample is made of a total of 429 olive oil companies that appear in the SABI database in 2021. The inputs used have been: Staff costs, Supplies and Fixed Assets, while Sales have been considered as the only output. The later non-parametric statistical tests has shown significant differences only by company size. The work addresses an economic efficiency analysis of the Spanish olive industry to determine the factors that can influence it. The analysis has been carried out applying the non-parametric methodology of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).
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