This article reviews ways of representing the effects of decoupling in the EuropeanUnion (EU) on land allocation and production in eight selected simulationmodels (AGLINK, AG-MEMOD, CAPRI, CAPSIM, ESIM, FAPRI, GOALand GTAP). It then compares the simulated effects of decoupling and tracesthem...

Die in angewandten Simulationsmodellen weit verbreiteten isoelastischen Angebots- und Nachfragesysteme haben den Nachteil, daß sie nur sehr eingeschränkt auf globale Konsistenz mit bestimmten sich aus der ökonomischen Theorie ergebenden Bedingungen zu restringieren sind. In diesem Beitrag...

The EU has notified the WTO of 21 bilateral trade agreements that are currently in force with nonmember countries (WTO, 2005). Under these agreements, the EU grants almost unlimited access to its industrial markets, but only limited preferential access to its agricultural markets for various...

A major drawback of constant elasticity supply and demand systems, which are widely used in simulation models for applied policy analysis, is that they can’t be restricted to globally comply with certain conditions implied by economic theory. This paper compares constant elasticity systems to...

Various simulation models uniformly project a decline of the cereal and silage maize area as well as ruminant production in the EU-15 in the course of decoupling of direct payments. In contrast, model results are heterogeneous with respect to the direction of the decoupling effect on oilseed and...

This paper presents an approach to depict subsistence production of milk in a partial equilibriumsector model and applies this approach to Poland, Bulgaria and Romania in the European SimulationModel (ESIM). The restriction on milk production implied by the EU milk quota in a situation...