کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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5055976 | 1371506 | 2007 | 17 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |

Environmental externalities in agriculture, and the choice of suitable instruments to integrate environmental concerns into agricultural policies, are a matter of interest for the Common Agricultural Policy. In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis techniques to assess the impact on farms' performance of two environmentally-friendly regulations aimed at abating consumption of inorganic nitrogen in Spanish citrus farming: levies on purchased nitrogen and nitrogen use permits for farms. By comparing farms' short-run maximum profits under both unregulated and regulated scenarios a regulation cost index is computed. Our results show that nitrogen overuse is mostly a matter of management inefficiency and that pollution could be reduced by promoting best farming techniques. Instead, if environmental regulations are implemented, regulating authorities should be aware that quantitative limits exercise a lower impact on farms' profits than taxes.
Journal: Economic Modelling - Volume 24, Issue 2, March 2007, Pages 312-328