Effect of public subsidies on farm technical efficiency: a meta-analysis of empirical results. Issue 2 (8th January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Minviel, Jean Joseph; Latruffe, Laure
• Is Part Of: Applied economics. Volume 49:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 213
• Page End: 226
• Publication Date: 2017-01-08
• Subjects: Meta-analysis -- technical efficiency -- subsidies -- farms; C12 -- C83 -- Q12 -- Q18 -- D24; Economics -- Periodicals; 330
• DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1194963
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-6846

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Investigating the impact of public subsidies on farm technical efficiency is becoming a critical issue in applied agricultural policy analysis. This article presents a meta-analysis of empirical results on this issue, based on data gathered from a systematic literature review. We find that, in the empirical literature, subsidies are commonly negatively associated with farm technical efficiency. Meta-regression estimation results show that the direction (significantly negative, significantly positive or non-significant) of the observed effects is sensitive to the way subsidies are modelled in the empirical studies.