Karagiannis G., Tzouvelekas V. (2012). The damage-control effect of pesticides on total factor productivity growth. European review of agricultural economics [Papier], 13/07/2012, vol. 39, n. 3, p. 417-437.
https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbr025
https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbr025
Titre : | The damage-control effect of pesticides on total factor productivity growth (2012) |
Auteurs : | G. Karagiannis ; V. Tzouvelekas |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | European review of agricultural economics [Papier] (vol. 39, n. 3, July 2012) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 417-437 |
Langues : | Anglais |
Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
Catégories : |
Thésaurus IAMM PESTICIDE ; PRODUCTIVITE ; FACTEUR DE PRODUCTION ; MODELE DE SIMULATION ; OLEICULTURE ; GRECE |
Résumé : | This paper develops a framework for analysing the sources of total factor productivity (TFP) changes by explicitly taking into account the damage-control nature of pesticides. In the proposed framework, TFP changes are attributed to the conventional sources of growth (i.e. technical change, scale effect and changes in technical efficiency) and the damage-control effect which consists of three distinct components: the first one is due to changes in the initial pest infestation, the second is a spillover effect arising from neighbours' use of preventive inputs and the third is related to abatement effectiveness. The proposed model is applied to a panel of olive-growing farms in Crete, Greece, during the period 19992003. The empirical results indicate that the damage-control effect accounted, on average, for 5 per cent of the annual TFP growth and its main component was the improvements in abatement effectiveness. |
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URL / DOI : | https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbr025 |