An integer programming dynamic farm-household model to evaluate the impact of agricultural policy reforms on farm investment behaviour

The common agricultural policy and the determinants of changes in EU farm size

“…In order to limit attention to recent studies of the CAP, on the one hand, the authors have identified a positive effect of policy decoupling on the land market, generated by an increase in formalised relationships between actors with regard to land possession (Ciaian and Swinnen, 2006;Ciaian et al, 2010). On the other hand, others have noted that income support payments have reduced land reallocation towards more efficient farms, hence preventing some farmers from exiting agriculture and also helping to keep less efficient farms active (Latruffe and Le Mouël, 2009;Brady et al, 2009;Viaggi et al, 2010). With regard to the assessment of the effects of different policy designs (decoupled vs. coupled CAP) on structural change, studies have been carried out both ex ante and ex post.…”

Use of MIP for planning temporary immigrant farm labor force

“…(2013) who investigated the economic effects of international policy changes as well as Viaggi et al (2010) who used a MIP model to study farm investment behavior based on policy changes. However, none of the cited publications focus on the choice between differing labor sources for planting and harvesting activities.…”

Understanding the determinants of investment reactions to decoupling of the Common Agricultural Policy

“…Although a few recent studies focus on the policy impact on investment behaviour (e.g. Sckokai and Moro, 2009;Viaggi et al, 2010), the analysis of this issue still appears to be insufficiently explored in the literature, and particularly challenging. This may be attributed to the fact that policy scenarios interact with all other (numerous) determinants, particularly whole household/firm management, expectations, risk perception, asset liquidity and output prices.…”