This paper derives an applied general political economy model incorporating a model of political decision-making into a computable general economic equilibrium model. Political decision-making among a set of legislators is modeled via a mean voter decision rule derived from a modified...

EU Enlargement and WTO Restrictions Shaping the CAP - A political economy analysis of the present and future CAP reform with special reference to Germany and France. The paper presents a political economy analysis of the present and future CAP reform induced under different policy scenarios...

Increasing demand for policy impact assessment regarding social, economic and environmental aspects asks for combined application of different models and tools. The paper discusses concepts and challenges in linking models, taking CAPRI (Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact) model as...

Sugar MarketFollowing rich crops in almost all bigger producer countries estimated world sugar stocks have increased over the marketing year 2001/02 and destroyed hopes for future world prices to slowly increase. Expectations that China would fill its tariff quota of some 1.76 mt did not...

The Uruguay Round has established completely new rules for agricultural trade, but not yet achieved much liberalisation. The current new round of negotiations will, therefore, have to make another big step forward. Countries' views on what exactly should be agreed in the new round still differ...