In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die einzelbetrieblichen Effekte zweier agrarpolitischer Programme (Agrarumweltmaßnahmen, Ausgleichszulage für benachteiligte Gebiete) auf den betrieblichen Faktoreinsatz (Boden, Arbeit, Kapital, Viehbesatz, Viehbesatzdichte, Ausgaben für Pflanzenschutz- und...

This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result,...

Measuring factor productivity has been important in economics since its early days as a scientific discipline for a number of reasons. The first is the availability of systematically collected agricultural data after World War I, which allowed researchers to motivate and test newly developed...