The Role of Technology and Institutions for Growth: Danish Creameries in the late Nineteenth Century

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We consider the relative contributions of changing technology and institutions for economic growth through the investigation of a natural experiment in history: the almost simultaneous introduction of the automatic cream separator and the cooperative ownership form in the Danish dairy industry from around 1880. Using a new database of statistics from creameries and the tool of stochastic frontier analysis, we find that both institutions and technology were important for the success of the Danish dairy industry and, by implication, the growth and early development of the Danish economy.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherDepartment of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Number of pages29
Publication statusPublished - 2010

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JEL classification: L2, N5, O3, Q1

    Research areas

  • Faculty of Social Sciences - dairies, creameries, Denmark, development, economic growth, stochastic frontier analysis

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