Access to Credit, Factor Allocation and Farm Productivity: Evidence From the CEE Transition Economies

Jan Falkowski, Pavel Ciaian and d'Artis Kancs

No 2009-12, Working Papers from Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw

Abstract: This paper analyses how farm access to credit affects farm input allocation and farm efficiency in the CEE transition countries. Drawing on a unique farm level panel data with 37,409 observations and employing a matching estimator we are able to control for the key source of endogeneity – unoberserved heterogeneity. We find that farms are credit constrained both in the short-run as well as in the long-run, but that credit constraint is asymmetric between inputs. Our estimates suggest that farm access to credit increases TFP up to 1.9% per 1000 EUR of additional credit. The use of variable inputs and capital investment increases up to 2.3% and 29%, respectively, per 1000 EUR of additional credit. Due to credit-financed investment in labour-saving farm equipment, labour use reduces for low level of credit. Farms are found not to be credit constrained with respect to land.

Keywords: access to credit; investment; factor allocation; productivity; transition countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P14 Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2009
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-eff and nep-tra
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (14)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.wne.uw.edu.pl/inf/wyd/WP/WNE_WP22.pdf First version, 2009 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Access to Credit, Factor Allocation and Farm Productivity: Evidence From the CEE Transition Economies (2010)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:war:wpaper:2009-12

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Marcin Bąba ().