...Emmanuel Mamatzakis; Christos Staikouras Purpose Common Agriculture Police in the EU, direct payments, solvency and income Design/methodology/approach We employ agriculture data for all twenty-eight EU Member States. The data comes from the public Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) of the EU...

...Johannes Möllmann; Marius Michels; Oliver Musshoff Purpose The outstanding reform of the Common Agriculture Policy allows for changes regarding its most criticized component, the direct payment scheme. The purpose of this paper is to investigate farmers’ acceptance of subsidized whole farm income...

...Simone Severini; Antonella Tantari; Giuliano Di Tommaso Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess how direct payments (DPs) of the Common Agricultural Policy affect income and revenue variability faced by Italian farmers. Design/methodology/approach Balanced farm-level panel data are used...

... of the direct payments program, as part of the 2014 Farm Bill. Practical implications – This implies that farmers likely use annual decoupled payments to reduce their debt, potentially influencing their exposure to financial risks, capacity to withstand financial instability, and access to credit...

...Nadja El Benni; Robert Finger; Stefan Mann Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of agricultural policy reform – specifically the change from market to direct payment support – on income variability of Swiss farming households. In addition, the observed heterogeneity...