Abstrak 
The relationship between technical efficiency and industrial concentration: Evidence from the Indonesian food and beverages industry
Maman Setiawan, Grigorios Emvalomatis, Alfons Oude Lansink
Universitas Padjadjaran, Journal of Asian Economics 23 (2012) 466–475, doi:10.1016/j.asieco.2012.01.002
Inggris
Universitas Padjadjaran, Journal of Asian Economics 23 (2012) 466–475, doi:10.1016/j.asieco.2012.01.002
Data envelopment analysis (DEA), Efficient-structure hypothesis, industrial concentration, Quiet-life hypothesis, technical efficiency
This paper investigates the relationship between technical efficiency and industrial concentration in the Indonesian food and beverages sector. Firm-level data obtained from the Indonesian Bureau of Central Statistics (BPS) are used to estimate technical efficiency scores and calculate measures of industrial concentration. The results show that the food and beverages industry is characterized by high industrial concentration and firms in the industry are inefficient. The Granger-causality test suggests a one-way direction of causality, with industrial concentration having a negative impact on technical efficiency, at the sector level. This suggests that the quiet-life hypothesis, rather than the efficientstructure hypothesis, applies to the Indonesian food and beverages industry.