@article{Cillero:258617,
      recid = {258617},
      author = {Cillero, Maria Martinez and Breen, James and Thorne, Fiona  and Wallace, Michael},
      title = {The effect of the implementation of the 2003 Mid-Term  Review of the CAP on technical efficiency of beef  production. A comparative analysis},
      address = {2017-04-24},
      number = {1916-2017-1363},
      pages = {27},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {The 2003 Mid-Term Review introduced decoupled payments as  part of the Common Agricultural Policy; however it allowed  the maintenance of limited coupled support. As a result,  there are significant differences in subsidies granted in  each Member State. We aim to explore the effects on  technical efficiency of the different implementations of  support payments in the beef sector in selected countries.  This analysis contributes to the literature by exploring  the effects of both coupled and decoupled support payments  on farm level economic performance. For this purpose,  country specific output distance functions are estimated  together with the effects of a series of technical  efficiency drivers, including subsidies, implementing  stochastic frontier analysis. Unbalanced panel datasets for  France, Ireland, Germany, Scotland and England and Wales  are built using Farm Accountancy Data Network information,  for the years 2005 to 2012. Our estimates show that  decoupled payments had a positive effect on efficiency in  all countries, while the retention of coupled support had a  significant negative impact on technical efficiency on  French beef farms. This suggests that the maintenance of  coupled support might compromise farm economic performance  in the sector.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/258617},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.258617},
}