This survey paper explores the literature on decoupling of farm programs that has emerged
in the last 10 years. The paper identifies and assesses the various channels of potential …

In this paper we review the methodological framework for analysing decoupled payments in
models of agricultural production. Market and technological uncertainty, farm efficiency …

Productivity is an always-hotly-debated issue within the EU agricultural policymaking,
particularly concerning the effect of subsidies distributed via the Common Agricultural Policy …

This article shows that credit market imperfections have important implications for the
distribution of policy rents. In a model with land as fixed factor and credit market …

Economic theory and empirical findings suggest that the way in which agricultural support is
provided has an influence on land markets. Support payments tend to become capitalised …

In this paper, we analyse the drivers of farm structural change in the EU-27, applying a novel
analytical framework in the field of agricultural economics known as the multiplicative …

The decoupling of direct payments from production introduced in the reform of the Common
Agricultural Policy is expected to make production decisions more market‐oriented and …

Decoupled direct payments to farmers were introduced in the European Union (EU) in the
form of the Single Payment Scheme (SPS) in 2005. The 2013 Common Agriculture Policy …

To attain fundamental reform of the post-2013 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), a serious
debate is needed in 2009/10 that prepares the decisions to be taken in 2011/12. The paper …

The recent reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, which decouples farm subsidies from
production, is expected to impact on farmers' production decisions. We perform a cross …