Lost in space? The effect of direct payments on land rental pricesMarten Graubner European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2018, vol. 45, issue 2, 143-171 Abstract: Decoupled direct payments are a major tool of agricultural policy to support farm income. Since these subsidies are tied to land, the question arises as to who benefits from them when farmers are not the landowners. While theoretical models commonly predict that most of the payments transfer to land prices, empirical findings show that this incidence is low instead. Approaching the issue from the perspective of spatial competition, this paper produces results consistent with empirical evidence. Incidence varies with the competitiveness of the market, ranging from perfect subsidy transfer under specific conditions to low or zero incidence for most of the cases considered. Keywords: agricultural subsidies; land rental markets; spatial competition (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:erevae:v:45:y:2018:i:2:p:143-171. Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article European Review of Agricultural Economics is currently edited by Timothy Richards, Salvatore Di Falco, Céline Nauges and Vincenzina Caputo More articles in European Review of Agricultural Economics from Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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