CAP Subsidies and the Productivity of EU Farms

Marian Rizov, Jan Pokrivcak and Pavel Ciaian

No 146962, Working papers from Factor Markets, Centre for European Policy Studies

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of subsidies from the common agricultural policy on the total factor productivity of farms in the EU. We employ a structural, semi-parametric estimation algorithm, directly incorporating the effect of subsidies into a model of unobserved productivity. We empirically study the effects using samples from the Farm Accountancy Data Network for EU-15 countries. Our main findings are clear: subsidies had a negative impact on farm productivity in the period before the decoupling reform was implemented; after decoupling the effect of subsidies on productivity was more nuanced, as in several countries it turned positive.

Keywords: Productivity; Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28
Date: 2013-03-27
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Journal Article: CAP Subsidies and Productivity of the EU Farms (2013)
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Working Paper: CAP Subsidies and the Productivity of EU Farms (2013)
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.146962

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