This paper aims at considering policyregimes while studying international price transmissionmechanisms. The focus is on the soft wheat marketbetween the United States and the European Union inthe years 1978-2003. EU domestic and border policiesare expected to play a strong role; a...

The Common Agricultural Policy is modelled as a club good providing the European Union (EU) farmer with financial benefits. We build an economic model which explains how much farmers in individual EU countries invest in rent-seeking activities in order to test for free-riding behaviour on...

This paper aims at considering policy regimes while studying international price transmission mechanisms. The focus is on the soft wheat market between the United States and the European Union in the years 1978-2003. EU domestic and border policies are expected to play a strong role; a...

The 2003 reform of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) replaced the coupled direct support schemes by a Single Farm Payment (SFP), which will be mainly delivered to farmers irrespective of what they produce (hence 'decoupled' from production). The level of decoupling differs...

Este trabajo evalúa los efectos que la Reforma de la Política Agraria Comunitaria de 1992 ha tenido sobre el conjunto de la economía de Castilla y León, una vez conocidas las producciones obtenidas, los precios percibidos y las subvenciones recibidas por los agricultores de la región entre...

The article offers an assessment of spatial differences in the structure of payment granting decisions under the EU Common Agricultural Policy. The analysis was conducted for individual EU assistance measures divided into two groups: 1) intensifying measures, intended to step up production and...

This scientific paper presents a consequent research of actual problems, trends and challenges in agricultural sector worldwide, in Europe and Latvia starting from global outlook and ending up with Latvian nationwide scale. The analysis of global and EU agricultural trends and problems has...

The economic theory links the growth of production factors remuneration with the productivity improvement. In the case of contemporary European agriculture, among the most important income creators are money transfers, namely direct payments. These transfers are part of the agricultural and...

The article aims to present the system of direct agricultural payments in Poland in the context of solutions applied in the European Union. The work describes briefly the evolution of direct payments in the framework of Common Agricultural Policy, presents basic information about the models of...