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Abstract
This paper presents some results of a two-year
(2006-2007) research project supported by the
French Ministry of Research’s funding program ECONET.
One of the project’s objectives was to investigate
the determinants of farm technical efficiency in New
Member States before and after accession to the
European Union, and in particular the role of public
subsidies on this performance variable. Four countries
were considered: Hungary, the Czech Republic and
Slovenia, who acceded to the EU in 2004, and Romania,
whose accession was in 2007. The study found that
subsidies had a negative impact on farm technical
efficiency in Hungary over the period 2001-2005, in the
Czech dairy corporate sector over the period 2000-2004,
in Slovenia over the period 1994-2003, and in the
Romanian crop sector in 2005.