Auf Grund der spezifischen Betriebstrukturen in Deutschland ist die von den EU Agrarministern beschlossene "Gesundheitsbewertung" der gegenwärtigen Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik der EU (GAP) und insbesondere die darin enthaltenen Vorschläge einer "progressiven Modulation" von besonderer Bedeutung...

More powerful computers, the better availability of micro-data, and the development of new modeling techniques, such as multi-agent systems, allows to analyze agricultural policies from the bottom up. We present such an approach that considers the spatial interaction of thousands of individually...

Due to Germany’s specific farm structure, the progressive modulation of direct payments decided within the Health Check of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is of particular relevance for German agriculture. In this paper we apply the agent-based model AgriPoliS to shed some light on the...

A central criticism common to agricultural economic modelling approaches for policy analysis is that they do not adequately take account of a number of characteristic factors of the agricultural sector. This concerns aspects like the immobility of land, heterogeneity of farms, interactions...