Intensification and specialisation of French farms: an application of the theory of contestable markets

Intensification et spécialisation des exploitations agricoles: apports et limites de la théorie des marchés contestables

Pierre Dupraz

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Abstract: The contestable markets theory provides instrumental means ta study the dramatic increase in farm specialisation and concentration which took place over the last decades. With respect to multiproduct technologies, this approach leads to an endogenous detennination of the structure of the farm sector. The concept of specialisation economies is proposed in arder to emphasise linkages between the change in inputs prices and the competitiveness of specialised farms. The major role of the labour input price in explaining the specialisation trend of French fanns is underlined in the empirical part of our paper. This result explains why specialisation and other input intensification are linked.

Keywords: factors of production; économie industrielle; spécialisation agricole; intensification; facteurs de production; industrial economic; agricultural specialisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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Published in Études et Recherches sur les Systèmes Agraires et le Développement, 1998, 31, pp.357-369

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