To date, no study has investigated the role of spatial spillovers in the technical efficiency of farmer cooperatives. This study addresses this issue by employing a two‐stage approach, first measuring cooperatives' technical efficiency using a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model and secondly using a bootstrap truncated regression to identify the effect of spatial spillovers and cooperative firm‐level characteristics on technical efficiency. The empirical application focuses on grain marketing cooperatives in the Midwest region of the United States, and shows that spatial spillover effects influence the technical efficiency of neighboring cooperatives. Technical efficiency is also found to be influenced by several cooperative firm‐level characteristics including age, liquidity, differentiation, and membership size. [EconLit citations C21, Q13, R3].

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技术效率和空间溢出：来自美国中西部谷物营销合作社的证据

迄今为止，还没有研究调查过空间溢出在农民合作社技术效率中的作用。本研究采用两阶段方法解决这个问题，首先使用数据包络分析 (DEA) 模型衡量合作社的技术效率，然后使用自举截断回归来确定空间溢出和合作公司层面特征对技术的影响。效率。实证应用侧重于美国中西部地区的粮食营销合作社，表明空间溢出效应影响邻近合作社的技术效率。还发现技术效率受几个合作公司层面特征的影响，包括年龄、流动性、差异化和成员规模。[EconLit 引文 C21、Q13、