 Assessing the Evolution of Technical Efficiency of Agriculture in EU Countries: Is There a Role for the Agenda 2000?G. Vlontzos () and
S. Niavis
Chapter Chapter 18 in Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy, 2014, pp 339-351 from Springer Abstract: Abstract One of the major goals of the Agenda 2000 for EU agriculture was to increase its market orientation and improve the competitiveness level of the primary sector of member states. In order to evaluate if this goal has been reached, both Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models have been applied. This research focuses on the 2003–2011 period. Inputs include agricultural land, labour and fixed capital consumption, and output is the total agricultural output of each country. Both models prove that there is an increasing trend on mean efficiency levels of the primary sector of member states of the EU. The application of the Mann-Whitney U-test prove that eastern European countries, which recently became EU members, are significantly less efficient, compared with the older member states. This finding applies for both efficiency measurement methodologies, strengthening in this way the validity of the results. Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis; Technical Efficiency; Efficiency Score; Data Envelopment Analysis Model; Common Agricultural Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:comchp:978-3-319-06635-6_18 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06635-6_18 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Cooperative Management from Springer |
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