Girante, Maria Joana; Goodwin, Barry K.; Featherstone, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008
While in theory decoupled payments do not distort production decisions, in practice there are several potential … coupling mechanisms for these payments. We use farm-level data from Kansas to revisit the issue of how (de)coupled are these … supposedly “decoupled” payments by focusing on how they may impact production through credit constraints. In particular, we study …