The impact of single farm payments on technical inefficiency of French crop farms

Jean-Philippe Boussemart (1) , Kassoum Ayouba (1) , Stephane Vigeant (2, 1)

1 LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221
2 Institut des sciences economiques et de management

AbstractThis paper analyses the effect of single farm payments (SFPs) introduced by the Luxembourg agreements (2003) of the Common Agricultural Policy, on the performance of crop farms in Eure-et-Loir, France, over the period 2005–2008. Technical inefficiency scores of these crop farms are first estimated. Then, the estimated technical inefficiency scores are regressed on SFPs received by farmers following a standard two-step procedure. The analysis shows a negative effect of SFPs on the technical inefficiency of Eure-et-Loir farms. This implies that subsidies granted to farms without production restrictions seem to reduce technical inefficiency.

Mots clés: Single farm payments (SFPs); Technical inefficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Double bootstrap; Single farm payments (SFPs); C14; C16; C34; Q12; Q18

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Gestion et management

Jean-Philippe Boussemart, Kassoum Ayouba, Stephane Vigeant. The impact of single farm payments on technical inefficiency of French crop farms. Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 2017, 98 (1-2), pp.1-23. ⟨10.1007/s41130-017-0049-2⟩. ⟨hal-01680258⟩