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

Land Use Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 495-505

  Viaggi, Davide ^a   Raggi, Meri ^a   Paloma, Sergio Gomez y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

CAP reform; Decoupling; Households; Investment behaviour

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; POLICY REFORM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 78751605216     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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