چکیده:
Avoid profit-maximizing behavior and also pursue the welfare maximization goal. This article, using panel data related to small cheese-making cooperative factories for the years 1374-1382 and using the normal profit system method, examines the behavior of these cooperatives. The results obtained show that these units follow profit-maximizing behavior more closely. Therefore, these cooperatives can be considered more as competitive firms rather than cooperative firms. Consequently, dairy farmers who trade raw milk products with these small factories, as well as consumers of the final product, are deprived of the advantages and benefits of cooperation in this industry. Also, the results show that the studied units do not possess one hundred percent efficiency in the consumption of fuel inputs and milk inputs. In studies related to cooperatives, different patterns of cooperation receive less attention. Regarding cooperatives, there is a strong theoretical background showing that if society wants to benefit from the abundant benefits of cooperation in the processing and recycling of agricultural products, cooperatives must...
خلاصه ماشینی:
According to the methodology of Leu and Yotopoulos, if the production function is as follows: (1) tp af(x) where tp represents the total production level, a represents the efficiency coefficient, and x represents the vector of production factors, the behavior in question, in relation to the equality of the value of marginal product with a constant fraction of the price of production factors, will be expressed as: (Refer to the page image) where p is the product price and wi is the price of the i-th production factor.
shadow prices Now, if the derivative of the above behavioral normalized profit function is taken with respect to the effective prices kw, according to the Shephard-Ozawa-McFadden rule, the demand function for inputs is obtained: (Refer to the page image) By specifying a suitable functional form for ???, it is possible to study the economic behavior of firms (cooperatives) by conducting appropriate statistical tests.
To perform these tests, the existence of the actual normalized profit function is also necessary, which is written as follows: (Refer to the page image) The above equation belongs to firm i; however, writing its index i has been avoided.
By disregarding the fixed factors of production and with slight modification, the actual profit equation can be written as follows: (Refer to the page image) Based on equation (81) and by specifying a suitable functional form for the behavioral normalized profit function, it is possible to specify the actual normalized profit function and the factor demand functions, estimate them, and arrange appropriate tests to examine profit maximization behavior.
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