[fre] L'objectif de ce papier est de vérifier la capacité des théories traditionnelles sur l'investissement à expliquer l'évolution de l'investissement agricole au niveau macroéconomique. Les caractéristiques de la branche sont prises en compte : distinction entre travail familial et...

In relation to the growing debate around multifunctionality, this paper attempts to classify alternative measures of agricultural income support according to their ability in achieving three policy objectives (supporting agricultural income, promoting positive externalities and reducing negative...

La troisième partie de ce rapport s’intéresse à la compétitivité de l’AB française relativement à, d’une part, l’AC nationale, et, d’autre part, l’AB en Europe.(...)Cette troisième partie s’intéresse aux différents maillons des filières, du producteur agricole au...

This paper proposes an assessment of the October 2011 legislative proposals for CAP reform. The assessment is essentially qualitative, illustrated by static simulations of income effects for French professional farms. It uses the French case to highlight the diverging opinions between...

The concept of the restricted cost function provides a dual approach to the analysis of short-run technology. It allows also, under curvature restrictions, inference of the different possible equilibria, according to constraints on the firms. Moreover, in this paper, the properties of the...

In the framework of a two-country, two-good partial equilibrium model where one of the commodities (the bulk commodity) is an intermediate input in the production of the second good (the processed good), we assume that the government wishes to transfer income to both bulk commodity and processed...

Two-stage budgeting postulates that the consumer's utility maximization decision can be decomposed into two steps. In the first stage, total expenditure is allocated over broad groups of goods. In the second stage, group expenditures are allocated over elementary commodities. In this article, we...