Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Volume 99, Issue 3, Pages 783-799Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aaw077
Keywords
Dairy production; endogeneity; European Union; technical efficiency; stochastic production frontier; subsidies
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- European Community [212292]
- economics and social sciences division (SAE2) of INRA
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The objective of this article is to examine the association between agricultural subsidies and dairy farm technical efficiency in the European Union, and in so doing we make novel contributions to the literature. We include in the analysis nine diverse western European Union (EU) countries over an 18-year period (1990-2007) encompassing the various Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms enacted since the inception of the EU. Further, we account for input endogeneity using an original method of moments estimator. Our results show that the effect of subsidies on technical efficiency may be positive, null, or negative, depending on the country. The analysis reveals that the introduction of decoupling with the 2003 CAP reform weakens the effect that subsidies have on technical efficiency.
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