@article{Guesmi:261279,
      recid = {261279},
      author = {Guesmi, Bouali and Gil, Jose Maria},
      title = {Measuring the impact of agricultural research on Catalan  agricultural productivity},
      address = {2017-08-28},
      number = {728-2017-3263},
      pages = {20},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {The main purpose of this article is to assess the impact  of public agricultural research effort on agricultural  total factor productivity in Catalonia. A complementary  approach based on accounting and econometric techniques is  applied to annual data over the period 1985–2015 to fit the  relationship between agricultural total factor productivity  (TFP) and agriculture research spending. The results show  that TFP grows on average at an annual rate less than one  percent. TFP growth was much faster during the tow first  decades of the analysis, with a considerable slowdown in  the last decade. Our empirical findings indicate that  public agricultural research has statistically significant  positive impact on Catalan agricultural productivity.  Furthermore, from a cost–benefit perspective, our study  reveals that the social marginal annualized real rate of  return to public resources invested in agricultural  research is about 15–28%.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/261279},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.261279},
}