Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - UC3M
Geographical specialisation in Spanish agriculture before and after integration in the European Union.
Mora, R., & San Juan, C. (2004) Regional Science and Urban Economics, 34(3), 309-320. ISSN 0166-0462
Wednesday 28 June 2017, by Carlos San Juan
This paper analyzes the evolution of agricultural product specialisation at the farm and county
levels in Spain from 1979 to 1997. This period covers all the stages of the gradual implementation of
the Common Agricultural Policy and the integration of the Spanish agriculture into the European
Market. A multiple product version of Theil and Finizza’s indices of segregation is used to decompose
farm product specialisation into county specialisation with respect to the national level and farm
specialisation within counties. Using a probit specification, we test whether changes in specialisation
are driven by comparative advantage at regional level or have been policy induced. Our results confirm
the existence of increasing county specialisation and highlight the fact that counties which were
initially more specialised in export-oriented products have shown the largest increase in specialisation.
D 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
JEL classification: C43; Q12; Q18; R32
Keywords: Spatial product specialisation; Comparative advantage; Common Agricultural Policy
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This paper analyzes the evolution of agricultural product specialisation at the farm and county
levels in Spain from 1979 to 1997. This period covers all the stages of the gradual implementation of
the Common Agricultural Policy and the integration of the Spanish agriculture into the European
Market. A multiple product version of Theil and Finizza’s indices of segregation is used to decompose
farm product specialisation into county specialisation with respect to the national level and farm
specialisation within counties. Using a probit specification, we test whether changes in specialisation
are driven by comparative advantage at regional level or have been policy induced. Our results confirm
the existence of increasing county specialisation and highlight the fact that counties which were
initially more specialised in export-oriented products have shown the largest increase in specialisation.
D 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
JEL classification: C43; Q12; Q18; R32
Keywords: Spatial product specialisation; Comparative advantage; Common Agricultural Policy