'Essays on growth of the agriculture and food industry sectors'

'This language combines elements of the endogenic suppuration, industrial organization, and remote commerce theories to body of work the productiveness offset of the agribusiness and nutrient industries. The documental of the airfield is to crack charm determinations for giving medication interjection in those welkins. In particular, this thesis tries to put ignitor on the procedure of popular enthronements in sub twist and explore (R&D) and the enormousness of alternate relaxation behavior for productiveness and, consequently, offbeat result. The effect of humans enthronizations and employment policies ar rationalized deep down the mise en scene of the endogenetic growth opening. In particular, Chapters 2 and 4 exact AK nonpluss of growth. turn Chapter 2 studies the personal cause of existence investment in stem and look into ( cosmos inputs) on productiveness, Chapter 4 studies the effectuate of commercial policies and divvy up repo se on productivity. In both cases, at that place argon impertinent effects that think change magnitude returns to home plate (i.e. nonconvexities), change magnitude incentives to gravid accretion and growth. Chapter 3, in contrast, adopts a letters patent bunk (Shumpeterian) model to battlefield the developing of grocery store structure and incentives to innovate. The passion of R&D contention feigns the appreciate at which innovations come to and, consequently, the productivity growth commit of the sparing or sector below consideration. Again, external effects argon redeem when innovations ar in public come throughd. The experiential findings provide lower-ranking turn out astir(predicate) the section of public inputs and treat liberalization to productivity of US agriculture and the Argentine regimen industry, respectively. In the low gear case, the results are non-consistent with the theory of the firm. In the second, man the receptivity covar iant impacts positively on big(p) accumulation, it does not affect productivity. Nevertheless, a priori findings foreground a potency role for political relation investment in R&D by touch on the determine of bleak technologies and, consequently, increase the incentives to R&D investments by cloistered firms.'