TY  - CPAPER 
AB  - We analyse the impacts of the CAP
reforms on technical efficiency of Greek olive farms. We use a production frontier function and a non-monotonic inefficiency effects model which incorporates the influences of exogenous variables on the mean and the variances of farm efficiency. We formulate policy variables (e.g. the direct subsidies) and farm characteristics as explanatory variables in the inefficiency effects model. We use the 1995-2004 FADN data to estimate the production frontier, to derive technical efficiency, and to determine the effects of the explanatory variables. The study shows that the 10-year average technical efficiency of olive farms is 69%. Direct transfers have a negative and monotonic effect on technical efficiency, while the degree of specialization has a non-monotonic effect on technical efficiency.
AU  - Zhu, Xueqin
AU  - Karagiannis, Giannis
AU  - Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M.
DA  - 2008
DA  - 2008
DO  - 10.22004/ag.econ.43612
DO  - doi
ID  - 43612
KW  - Agricultural and Food Policy
KW  - Crop Production/Industries
KW  - technical efficiency
KW  - the CAP reform
KW  - non-monotonic inefficiency effects
KW  - production frontier
KW  - olive-farming
L1  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/43612/files/057.pdf
L2  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/43612/files/057.pdf
L4  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/43612/files/057.pdf
LA  - eng
LA  - English
LK  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/43612/files/057.pdf
N2  - We analyse the impacts of the CAP
reforms on technical efficiency of Greek olive farms. We use a production frontier function and a non-monotonic inefficiency effects model which incorporates the influences of exogenous variables on the mean and the variances of farm efficiency. We formulate policy variables (e.g. the direct subsidies) and farm characteristics as explanatory variables in the inefficiency effects model. We use the 1995-2004 FADN data to estimate the production frontier, to derive technical efficiency, and to determine the effects of the explanatory variables. The study shows that the 10-year average technical efficiency of olive farms is 69%. Direct transfers have a negative and monotonic effect on technical efficiency, while the degree of specialization has a non-monotonic effect on technical efficiency.
PY  - 2008
PY  - 2008
T1  - Analyzing the impact of direct subsidies on the performance of the Greek Olive Farms with a non-monotonic efficiency effects model
TI  - Analyzing the impact of direct subsidies on the performance of the Greek Olive Farms with a non-monotonic efficiency effects model
UR  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/43612/files/057.pdf
Y1  - 2008
ER  -