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Distributional effects of CAP (Common Agricultural Policy of the EU) liberalisation
Project
Project code: TI-BW-08-PID1477
Contract period: 01.01.2008
- 31.12.2013
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU has a significant influence on farm incomes. But does the CAP reduce income gaps in the agricultural sector? What (unintended) distributional effects would further liberalisation of the European agricultural sector entail? We measure impacts of liberalising European agriculture on farm income distribution in western Germany. Unlike previous studies, we do not treat market income and policy support as independent income sources, but take into account that farms and market prices adjust to changing policies, which influences final results. The calculation of income and distributional effects is based on farm accountancy data for Germany. To analyse the impact of policy changes, we couple the farm group model FARMIS and the market model ESIM (Deppermann et al., 2011a, 2011b). This allows us to simultaneously take into account market as well as farm adjustments. Using a micro-accounting-model we split results of the FARMIS-model to single-farm level and examine to what extent data availability and aggregation level influence the results of distributional analyses of agricultural policy reforms. W additionally analyse the sensitivity of results to the choice of the reference scenario, which generally may influence level and direction of distributional effects.
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Subjects
- Agricultural Policy
- Business administration
