A microeconomic model for subsidies allocation: The case of Belarus

Konferenzbeitrag

The paper develops a microeconomic methodological framework that allows approaching subsidy allocation across the types of assets and impact of subsidies on agricultural outputs and profits. The methodology is based on a non-parametric production frontier estimation. The empirical application is made to 1084 Belarusian corporate farms. The results suggest targeting governmental support at grain and milk production. In this case, 4.14 trillion Belarusian roubles of subsidies increase the overall profit of the sample farms by 1.46 trillion. In the case of targeting, the farms with higher overall efficiency are more sensitive to the support and are able to absorb larger amount of subsidies. The opposite is true in the absence of targeting.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IAMO Forum 2010, Halle (Saale), June 16 - 18, 2010: Institutions in Transition - Challenges for New Modes of Governance

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Basic Areas of Law: General (Constitutional Law) ; Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
• Subject: Microeconomic model ; data envelopment ; subsidies ; Belarus

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Svetlov, Nikolay M. ; Kazakevich, Iryna A.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO)
• (where): Halle (Saale)
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/52701
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET