The horticulture sector plays a relevant role in Spanish agriculture and economy. Their participa... more The horticulture sector plays a relevant role in Spanish agriculture and economy. Their participation in the final agricultural production reached 37% and it represents an important source of employment generating the half of the job in the entire Spanish agricultural sector (MARM, 2010). The purpose of this paper is the evaluation of dynamic technical efficiency for both outdoor and greenhouse Spanish farms specialized in horticulture production. A dynamic stochastic frontier model is developed to estimate the long run technical efficiency and it persistence for both samples. This analysis has been applied to 126 and 90 Spanish greenhouses and outdoor horticulture farms respectively using Farm Accounting Data Network. Those farms were observed during 6 years from 1999 to 2004. The static efficiency level of greenhouse farms is higher than outdoor farms by approximately 12%. The evolution of the static efficiency level during the studied period shows an increase by 15% in the greenh...
Origin labelling is one of the most important strategy in the Green Morocco Policy with which the... more Origin labelling is one of the most important strategy in the Green Morocco Policy with which the Moroccan government aims to support the marketing of domestically produced food and then improves the income of smallholder farmers. This study analyses this strategy using a market comparison between two products, a PGI labelled product Clementine of Berkane and a non-labelled product Cherries of Sefrou-Ifrane. A survey with 500 consumers was conducted in 2016. Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process methodology, we study the Moroccan consumer preferences and compare the hierarchy of different attributes and sub-attributes of both products. We evaluate the importance of the origin and the visibility of the new established quality sign of origin in the Moroccan market. Results show the importance of origin and the intrinsic characteristics of the product when Moroccan consumers purchase both products. The hierarchy obtained by the AHP for the Clementine of Berkane shows that the high jui...
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2015
Charitable giving is one of the major obligations in Islam and a strong Muslim norm endorses givi... more Charitable giving is one of the major obligations in Islam and a strong Muslim norm endorses giving to the needy, but discourages public displays of giving. We report the results two field experiments with 534 and 200 participants at Moroccan educational institutions to assess the effects of this moral prescription on actual giving levels in anonymous and public settings. Subjects who participated in a paid study were given the option to donate from their payment to a local orphanage, under treatments that varied the publicity of the donation and the salience of Islamic values using either Arabic or French instructions. In the salient Islamic treatment, anonymity of donations significantly increased donation incidence from 59% to 77% percent as well as average donations for religious subjects from 8.90 to 13.00 Dh out of possibly 30 Dh. These findings stand in stark contrast to most previous findings in the charitable giving literature and suggest to reconsider potential fundraising strategies in Muslim populations.
By using the stochastic frontier methodology, this study investigates the technical efficiency an... more By using the stochastic frontier methodology, this study investigates the technical efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Indonesian provincial economies during the period from 1993 to 2000. In addition to the estimation of provincial technical efficiency, factors that contribute to technical inefficiency are also examined and the TFP growth is decomposed into technological progress, the scale component and the change in technical efficiency. The results reveal that average technical efficiency is only around 50%. Our results reveal that the mean years of schooling and sectoral differences affected technical efficiency. The TFP grew, on average, in the range from 1.65% to 5.43% with an average growth of 3.59%. In twenty out of twenty six provinces the TFP growth was driven by efficiency changes while in four provinces the TFP growth was driven by technological progress. Further, we no te that the Asian crisis affected the TFP growth and the western provinces suffered from the crisis more than the eastern provinces.
Spain occupies a first ranking position in worldwide production and exportation for olive oil and... more Spain occupies a first ranking position in worldwide production and exportation for olive oil and table olives. Such position is enforced by the positive evolution of investment demonstrated by an increase of approximately 5% of area dedicated to this cultivation during the last 6 years. This study analyzes Spanish olive sector investment decision taking into consideration the technical efficiency as a relevant element that could impact that decision by integrating the real option approach and a dynamic stochastic frontier model. This analysis has been applied to a 158 Spanish olive farms using FADN data set. The results show that the technical inefficiency persistence parameter is fairly low to unity, which means that small technical inefficiency is transmitted to the next time period. The olive groves investment is irreversible and characterized by uncertainty on price and discount rate. An increase of discount rate means that the farmers take the decision to postpone investment. ...
The most of Spanish olive farms are concentrated in Less-Favoured Areas (LFA) with the majority o... more The most of Spanish olive farms are concentrated in Less-Favoured Areas (LFA) with the majority of producer areas are under Objective 1 of the EU Regional Policy. The EU has long recognized such distinctive characteristics of those holdings with a specific support measures aiming to prevent the abandonment of olive groves as well as to support sustainable development of this sector. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of LFA payment on the olive farms technical efficiency. Two sample farms located in LFA (63 farms receiving LFA payment support and 99 farms do not) have been observed from 2000 to 2004. A stochastic frontier production and Random-effect Tobit models have been used. Results indicate that LFA payment, age of manager, workforce composition and farm size affect efficiency levels. The LFA payment coefficient indicates a significant negative impact on the technical efficiency of Spanish olive farms. Farms that not receive LFA payment has a technical e...
The olive sector has a significant social, economic and environmental relevance within the Europe... more The olive sector has a significant social, economic and environmental relevance within the European Union (EU). This relevance can be justif ied by different reasons. First, olive cultivation, which is widespread throughout the Mediterranean region, constitutes a key element of the EU agricultural model. According to the Olistat database (Olistat dataset, 2006), the area under olive groves accounts for approximately 5.4 million hectares, representing around 4% of the EU utilizable agricultural area. Spain, with more than 2.4 million hectares, concentrates almost 45% of the EU olive groves extension. This sector involves around a third of all EU farmers, with about 2.5 million producers
Our paper compares individual preferences for attributes and levels of an agro-food product using... more Our paper compares individual preferences for attributes and levels of an agro-food product using two different methodologies. A key question is whether different results are obtained when asking consumers what they ''prefer" versus what they would ''buy". Within this context, we compare empirical results obtained from Choice Experiments (CE) versus the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) due to their capacity to simulate the ''purchasing" and ''theoretical" stated preferences, respectively. We utilize a survey of restaurateurs' stated preferences to include rabbit meat in their menus in Catalonia (Spain) in this exploratory study. Results demonstrate similarities and differences in the stated preferences for attributes and attribute levels with a 55.6% coincidence in their ranking between methods. Utility variation between levels in both approaches follows a similar shape for two of the three analyzed attributes.
Spain occupies a first ranking position in worldwide production and exportation for olive oil and... more Spain occupies a first ranking position in worldwide production and exportation for olive oil and table olives. Such position is enforced by the positive evolution of investment demonstrated by an increase of approximately 5% of area dedicated to this cultivation during the last 6 years. This study analyzes Spanish olive sector investment decision taking into consideration the technical efficiency as a relevant element that could impact that decision by integrating the real option approach and a dynamic stochastic frontier model. This analysis has been applied to a 158 Spanish olive farms using FADN data set. The results show that the technical inefficiency persistence parameter is fairly low to unity, which means that small technical inefficiency is transmitted to the next time period. The olive groves investment is irreversible and characterized by uncertainty on price and discount rate. An increase of discount rate means that the farmers take the decision to postpone investment. ...
Our paper focuses on assessing the determinants factors that drive agro-industries to abandon the... more Our paper focuses on assessing the determinants factors that drive agro-industries to abandon their activities as well the timing of their decision. Moreover, we try to compare results between two different agro-industry sector; the wine and processed meat sectors. We apply the Duration Analysis (DA) due to its potential to analyze both the decision and diffusion aspects of abandoning
The most of Spanish olive farms are concentrated in Less-Favoured Areas (LFA) with the majority o... more The most of Spanish olive farms are concentrated in Less-Favoured Areas (LFA) with the majority of producer areas are under Objective 1 of the EU Regional Policy. The EU has long recognized such distinctive characteristics of those holdings with a specific support measures aiming to prevent the abandonment of olive groves as well as to support sustainable development of this sector. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of LFA payment on the olive farms technical efficiency. Two sample farms located in LFA (63 farms receiving LFA payment support and 99 farms do not) have been observed from 2000 to 2004. A stochastic frontier production and Random-effect Tobit models have been used. Results indicate that LFA payment, age of manager, workforce composition and farm size affect efficiency levels. The LFA payment coefficient indicates a significant negative impact on the technical efficiency of Spanish olive farms. Farms that not receive LFA payment has a technical e...
The olive sector has a significant social, economic and environmental relevance within the Europe... more The olive sector has a significant social, economic and environmental relevance within the European Union (EU). This relevance can be justif ied by different reasons. First, olive cultivation, which is widespread throughout the Mediterranean region, constitutes a key element of the EU agricultural model. According to the Olistat database (Olistat dataset, 2006), the area under olive groves accounts for approximately 5.4 million hectares, representing around 4% of the EU utilizable agricultural area. Spain, with more than 2.4 million hectares, concentrates almost 45% of the EU olive groves extension. This sector involves around a third of all EU farmers, with about 2.5 million producers
Our paper compares individual preferences for attributes and levels of an agro-food product using... more Our paper compares individual preferences for attributes and levels of an agro-food product using two different methodologies. A key question is whether different results are obtained when asking consumers what they ''prefer" versus what they would ''buy". Within this context, we compare empirical results obtained from Choice Experiments (CE) versus the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) due to their capacity to simulate the ''purchasing" and ''theoretical" stated preferences, respectively. We utilize a survey of restaurateurs' stated preferences to include rabbit meat in their menus in Catalonia (Spain) in this exploratory study. Results demonstrate similarities and differences in the stated preferences for attributes and attribute levels with a 55.6% coincidence in their ranking between methods. Utility variation between levels in both approaches follows a similar shape for two of the three analyzed attributes.
Our paper focuses on assessing the determinants factors that drive agro-industries to abandon the... more Our paper focuses on assessing the determinants factors that drive agro-industries to abandon their activities as well the timing of their decision. Moreover, we try to compare results between two different agro-industry sector; the wine and processed meat sectors. We apply the Duration Analysis (DA) due to its potential to analyze both the decision and diffusion aspects of abandoning
The horticulture sector plays a relevant role in Spanish agriculture and economy. Their participa... more The horticulture sector plays a relevant role in Spanish agriculture and economy. Their participation in the final agricultural production reached 37% and it represents an important source of employment generating the half of the job in the entire Spanish agricultural sector (MARM, 2010). The purpose of this paper is the evaluation of dynamic technical efficiency for both outdoor and greenhouse Spanish farms specialized in horticulture production. A dynamic stochastic frontier model is developed to estimate the long run technical efficiency and it persistence for both samples. This analysis has been applied to 126 and 90 Spanish greenhouses and outdoor horticulture farms respectively using Farm Accounting Data Network. Those farms were observed during 6 years from 1999 to 2004. The static efficiency level of greenhouse farms is higher than outdoor farms by approximately 12%. The evolution of the static efficiency level during the studied period shows an increase by 15% in the greenh...
Origin labelling is one of the most important strategy in the Green Morocco Policy with which the... more Origin labelling is one of the most important strategy in the Green Morocco Policy with which the Moroccan government aims to support the marketing of domestically produced food and then improves the income of smallholder farmers. This study analyses this strategy using a market comparison between two products, a PGI labelled product Clementine of Berkane and a non-labelled product Cherries of Sefrou-Ifrane. A survey with 500 consumers was conducted in 2016. Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process methodology, we study the Moroccan consumer preferences and compare the hierarchy of different attributes and sub-attributes of both products. We evaluate the importance of the origin and the visibility of the new established quality sign of origin in the Moroccan market. Results show the importance of origin and the intrinsic characteristics of the product when Moroccan consumers purchase both products. The hierarchy obtained by the AHP for the Clementine of Berkane shows that the high jui...
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2015
Charitable giving is one of the major obligations in Islam and a strong Muslim norm endorses givi... more Charitable giving is one of the major obligations in Islam and a strong Muslim norm endorses giving to the needy, but discourages public displays of giving. We report the results two field experiments with 534 and 200 participants at Moroccan educational institutions to assess the effects of this moral prescription on actual giving levels in anonymous and public settings. Subjects who participated in a paid study were given the option to donate from their payment to a local orphanage, under treatments that varied the publicity of the donation and the salience of Islamic values using either Arabic or French instructions. In the salient Islamic treatment, anonymity of donations significantly increased donation incidence from 59% to 77% percent as well as average donations for religious subjects from 8.90 to 13.00 Dh out of possibly 30 Dh. These findings stand in stark contrast to most previous findings in the charitable giving literature and suggest to reconsider potential fundraising strategies in Muslim populations.
By using the stochastic frontier methodology, this study investigates the technical efficiency an... more By using the stochastic frontier methodology, this study investigates the technical efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Indonesian provincial economies during the period from 1993 to 2000. In addition to the estimation of provincial technical efficiency, factors that contribute to technical inefficiency are also examined and the TFP growth is decomposed into technological progress, the scale component and the change in technical efficiency. The results reveal that average technical efficiency is only around 50%. Our results reveal that the mean years of schooling and sectoral differences affected technical efficiency. The TFP grew, on average, in the range from 1.65% to 5.43% with an average growth of 3.59%. In twenty out of twenty six provinces the TFP growth was driven by efficiency changes while in four provinces the TFP growth was driven by technological progress. Further, we no te that the Asian crisis affected the TFP growth and the western provinces suffered from the crisis more than the eastern provinces.
Spain occupies a first ranking position in worldwide production and exportation for olive oil and... more Spain occupies a first ranking position in worldwide production and exportation for olive oil and table olives. Such position is enforced by the positive evolution of investment demonstrated by an increase of approximately 5% of area dedicated to this cultivation during the last 6 years. This study analyzes Spanish olive sector investment decision taking into consideration the technical efficiency as a relevant element that could impact that decision by integrating the real option approach and a dynamic stochastic frontier model. This analysis has been applied to a 158 Spanish olive farms using FADN data set. The results show that the technical inefficiency persistence parameter is fairly low to unity, which means that small technical inefficiency is transmitted to the next time period. The olive groves investment is irreversible and characterized by uncertainty on price and discount rate. An increase of discount rate means that the farmers take the decision to postpone investment. ...
The most of Spanish olive farms are concentrated in Less-Favoured Areas (LFA) with the majority o... more The most of Spanish olive farms are concentrated in Less-Favoured Areas (LFA) with the majority of producer areas are under Objective 1 of the EU Regional Policy. The EU has long recognized such distinctive characteristics of those holdings with a specific support measures aiming to prevent the abandonment of olive groves as well as to support sustainable development of this sector. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of LFA payment on the olive farms technical efficiency. Two sample farms located in LFA (63 farms receiving LFA payment support and 99 farms do not) have been observed from 2000 to 2004. A stochastic frontier production and Random-effect Tobit models have been used. Results indicate that LFA payment, age of manager, workforce composition and farm size affect efficiency levels. The LFA payment coefficient indicates a significant negative impact on the technical efficiency of Spanish olive farms. Farms that not receive LFA payment has a technical e...
The olive sector has a significant social, economic and environmental relevance within the Europe... more The olive sector has a significant social, economic and environmental relevance within the European Union (EU). This relevance can be justif ied by different reasons. First, olive cultivation, which is widespread throughout the Mediterranean region, constitutes a key element of the EU agricultural model. According to the Olistat database (Olistat dataset, 2006), the area under olive groves accounts for approximately 5.4 million hectares, representing around 4% of the EU utilizable agricultural area. Spain, with more than 2.4 million hectares, concentrates almost 45% of the EU olive groves extension. This sector involves around a third of all EU farmers, with about 2.5 million producers
Our paper compares individual preferences for attributes and levels of an agro-food product using... more Our paper compares individual preferences for attributes and levels of an agro-food product using two different methodologies. A key question is whether different results are obtained when asking consumers what they ''prefer" versus what they would ''buy". Within this context, we compare empirical results obtained from Choice Experiments (CE) versus the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) due to their capacity to simulate the ''purchasing" and ''theoretical" stated preferences, respectively. We utilize a survey of restaurateurs' stated preferences to include rabbit meat in their menus in Catalonia (Spain) in this exploratory study. Results demonstrate similarities and differences in the stated preferences for attributes and attribute levels with a 55.6% coincidence in their ranking between methods. Utility variation between levels in both approaches follows a similar shape for two of the three analyzed attributes.
Spain occupies a first ranking position in worldwide production and exportation for olive oil and... more Spain occupies a first ranking position in worldwide production and exportation for olive oil and table olives. Such position is enforced by the positive evolution of investment demonstrated by an increase of approximately 5% of area dedicated to this cultivation during the last 6 years. This study analyzes Spanish olive sector investment decision taking into consideration the technical efficiency as a relevant element that could impact that decision by integrating the real option approach and a dynamic stochastic frontier model. This analysis has been applied to a 158 Spanish olive farms using FADN data set. The results show that the technical inefficiency persistence parameter is fairly low to unity, which means that small technical inefficiency is transmitted to the next time period. The olive groves investment is irreversible and characterized by uncertainty on price and discount rate. An increase of discount rate means that the farmers take the decision to postpone investment. ...
Our paper focuses on assessing the determinants factors that drive agro-industries to abandon the... more Our paper focuses on assessing the determinants factors that drive agro-industries to abandon their activities as well the timing of their decision. Moreover, we try to compare results between two different agro-industry sector; the wine and processed meat sectors. We apply the Duration Analysis (DA) due to its potential to analyze both the decision and diffusion aspects of abandoning
The most of Spanish olive farms are concentrated in Less-Favoured Areas (LFA) with the majority o... more The most of Spanish olive farms are concentrated in Less-Favoured Areas (LFA) with the majority of producer areas are under Objective 1 of the EU Regional Policy. The EU has long recognized such distinctive characteristics of those holdings with a specific support measures aiming to prevent the abandonment of olive groves as well as to support sustainable development of this sector. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of LFA payment on the olive farms technical efficiency. Two sample farms located in LFA (63 farms receiving LFA payment support and 99 farms do not) have been observed from 2000 to 2004. A stochastic frontier production and Random-effect Tobit models have been used. Results indicate that LFA payment, age of manager, workforce composition and farm size affect efficiency levels. The LFA payment coefficient indicates a significant negative impact on the technical efficiency of Spanish olive farms. Farms that not receive LFA payment has a technical e...
The olive sector has a significant social, economic and environmental relevance within the Europe... more The olive sector has a significant social, economic and environmental relevance within the European Union (EU). This relevance can be justif ied by different reasons. First, olive cultivation, which is widespread throughout the Mediterranean region, constitutes a key element of the EU agricultural model. According to the Olistat database (Olistat dataset, 2006), the area under olive groves accounts for approximately 5.4 million hectares, representing around 4% of the EU utilizable agricultural area. Spain, with more than 2.4 million hectares, concentrates almost 45% of the EU olive groves extension. This sector involves around a third of all EU farmers, with about 2.5 million producers
Our paper compares individual preferences for attributes and levels of an agro-food product using... more Our paper compares individual preferences for attributes and levels of an agro-food product using two different methodologies. A key question is whether different results are obtained when asking consumers what they ''prefer" versus what they would ''buy". Within this context, we compare empirical results obtained from Choice Experiments (CE) versus the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) due to their capacity to simulate the ''purchasing" and ''theoretical" stated preferences, respectively. We utilize a survey of restaurateurs' stated preferences to include rabbit meat in their menus in Catalonia (Spain) in this exploratory study. Results demonstrate similarities and differences in the stated preferences for attributes and attribute levels with a 55.6% coincidence in their ranking between methods. Utility variation between levels in both approaches follows a similar shape for two of the three analyzed attributes.
Our paper focuses on assessing the determinants factors that drive agro-industries to abandon the... more Our paper focuses on assessing the determinants factors that drive agro-industries to abandon their activities as well the timing of their decision. Moreover, we try to compare results between two different agro-industry sector; the wine and processed meat sectors. We apply the Duration Analysis (DA) due to its potential to analyze both the decision and diffusion aspects of abandoning
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