Estimation and modelling impacts of pillar 2 measures on the agricultural sector : workshop proceedings

The EU's Rural Development Programme is worth €100 billion from 2014-2020 and leverages a further €61 billion of public funding in the Member States. Their possible impacts on farmers' behaviour and on farmers' productivity have long been discussed in the literature which shows a large knowledge gap regarding the role of Pillar 2 subsidies on agricultural productivity and on the methodology to estimate and model these effects. The workshop organised by the JRC aimed at individuating the needed steps to fill the existing gaps and create the necessary consensus between academia and policy makers to produce policy relevant results. The workshop highlighted a few key elements, both on estimation and modelling sides that will be useful to JRC to adopt the necessary steps to fill the above mentioned gaps.