of constraints and challenges. The decoupling of direct payments from production is expected to make production decisions …. However, ex-post analyses of the productivity of farms have yet to uncover any evidence of a positive effect of the decoupling … and product switching after the introduction of decoupling has occurred and to what extent these changes have contributed …

Recent reform of the Common Agricultural Policy has led to the decoupling of direct payments to farmers from production … maximization objectives become profit maximizing objectives. In this paper we explore the impact of decoupling on the productivity … effect of decoupling on productivity by controlling for other policy changes that have occurred alongside decoupling. We also …