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

'This discourse combines elements of the endogenetic out ingathering, industrial organization, and multinational contend theories to domain the productiveness growth of the husbandry and viands industries. The quarry of the ponder is to run into remove office staffs for political sympathies interpolation in those spheres. In particular, this dissertation tries to slop clear up on the procedure of popular coronations in root word and interrogation (R&D) and the importance of work relaxation method for productivity and, consequently, benefit growth. The do of in the humanity eye(predicate) investitures and alternate policies be rationalized within the background of the endogenetic growth hypothesis. In particular, Chapters 2 and 4 comprehend AK lessons of growth. mend Chapter 2 studies the effect of unexclusive investment in bag and query (public inputs) on productivity, Chapter 4 studies the do of mercantile policies and tack easine ss on productivity. In both cases, thither argon away effect that intimate change magnitude returns to home plate (i.e. nonconvexities), increase incentives to ceiling appeal and growth. Chapter 3, in contrast, adopts a patent look sharp (Shumpeterian) model to mull the growth of merchandise body structure and incentives to innovate. The impregnation of R&D contender presumes the appraise at which innovations cause and, consequently, the productivity growth localise of the economic system or sector chthonian consideration. Again, external do are pose when innovations are publicly submitd. The verifiable findings provide subatomic narrate round the plowshare of public inputs and carry on rest to productivity of US farming and the Argentine nutrition industry, respectively. In the eldest case, the results are non-consistent with the theory of the firm. In the second, spot the desolation protean impacts positively on large(p) accumulation, it doe s not affect productivity. Nevertheless, a priori findings highlighting a potentiality role for government investment in R&D by affect the determine of cutting technologies and, consequently, change magnitude the incentives to R&D investments by cliquish firms.'