This paper investigates the co-evolution of the CAP expenditure and of the farms' performance and choices to assess whether and to what extent CAP assessment itself meets the requisites of Causal Inference. In order to identify some regularities in this co-evolution, the analysis is performed on...

1. Introduction and overview / Susan Senior Nello and Pierpaolo Pierani -- 2. A CAP for the whole community / John S. Marsh -- 3. Consumers and the political economy of European agricultural and food policies / Johan F. M. Swinnen, Martha Negash and Thijs Vandemoortele -- 4. Sustainable food...