The 2003 review of the Common AgriculturalPolicy (CAP) has introduced several new policy tools,among which cross-compliance. The introduction of thisnew policy entails production costs, along with othertypes of costs arising at the farm level: administrative,information, organisational costs,...

Beef and pig production are important sectors affected by the cross-compliance policy.Full compliance with SMRs and GAECs generates costs and benefits which may have animpact on the competitiveness of these sectors on the world market. Compliance with theNitrate Directive, animal identification...

While there is current interest in reorienting agricultural policy toward environmental and resource conservation goals, relatively little is known about the influence of cost on conservation adoption decisions or about how farmers combine multiple practices into an overall conservation package....

Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert die Entwicklung von Erlösdisparitäten innerhalb der deutschen Landwirtschaft und versucht die Bedeutung der EU-Agrarstützung in dem Zusammenhang zu identifizieren. Dazu wird die tatsächliche Streuung der Erlöse mit einer hypothetischen Situation ohne...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Australian agricultural firms display big bath behaviour during droughts by recognising extraordinary and abnormal losses. It is hypothesised that Australian agricultural firms are more likely to report big bath losses in drought years...

This paper examines the effects of decoupling policies on Greek cotton production under the hypothesis that producers face uncertainty about output price and quantity. Using our estimation results we simulate the effects on cotton production under four alternative policy scenarios: the ‘Old’...

In this paper we evaluate empirically the absolute and relative size of risk-related effects of a farm policy change, with specific reference to the CAP arable crop regime. We adopt a dual framework under non linear mean-variance risk preferences, which incorporates the impact of price...

The various assessments of the effects of a liberalization of world sugar markets are inconsistent with each other. One cause seems to be the modeling of the EU supply response. We investigate three possible linkages between sugar production under quota and the out-of-quota or "C" sugar supply:...

The European Union decided in June 2003 a new reform of its farm policy with a new step toward the decoupling of farm income support instruments. Available impact studies find that this reform will reduce production incentives, substantially for beef and to a lesser extent for arable crops. All...

A number of economic models have been applied to analyse theCommon Agricultural Policy. The partial equilibrium models CAPRI,ESIM, AGLINK, AGMEMOD and CAPSIM and the general equilibriummodels GLOBE and GTAP are currently integrated in a modellingplatform for Agro-Economic Policy Analysis in the...