We investigate farm size inequality in France using agricultural censuses and farm structure surveys at the NUTS3 level (‘départements’) during the period 1970–2007. Using calculated Gini coefficients, we show that farm size inequality has not systematically increased in France. An...

This paper provides a general framework for measuring farm support when both price and quantity policy instruments are used jointly. It is based on duality theory in production, i.e., on profit functions corresponding to different (dis-)equilibrium situations. Total Support is decomposed into a...

This paper proposes an analytical framework allowing estimation of the effects of the new instrumentation of the CAP in the arable crop sector--price cuts, compensatory payments and land set-aside schemes--on crop acreage allocations, supplies and yields. Duality theory is used to model crop...

This note shows, using a general equilibrium framework, that the level of utility attainable under a quota-cum-tariff policy is higher than in the tariff-alone case but, as should be expected, lower than without any price distortion. Copyright 1994 by Oxford University Press.

The concept of irreversible investment is applied to highly contagious animal disease control when uncertainty about the spread of the disease is resolved over time. In comparison with the strategy of destroying infected herds, the vaccination programme causes additional losses that cannot be...

We investigate the possible linkages between the EU sugar production under quota and the supply of C sugar. We calibrate the implicit cross-subsidy between in-quota sugar and out-of-quota sugar. The resulting supply specification is included in a computable general equilibrium model of the EU...