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Universität Bonn

Institute for
Food and
Resource Economics

Chair of Economic and Agricultural Policy

Prof. Dr. Thomas Heckelei

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• Network
• Data base
• Modelling concept
• Technical Solution
• Further information

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• Projects with External Funds
  since 2004
• Current Dissertation Projects
• Finalized Dissertations
• Quantitative Economic Simulation Tools

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• Projects with External Funds
  before 2004
• Research Areas until 2002

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Links related to CAPRI

• CAPRI modelling system
• CAPRI working papers
• Follow up project CAP-STRAT
• Simulation and MonitoringSystems for the EU

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CAPRI project (1997-1999) "Common Agricultural Policy Regional Impact Analysis" (partly funded by the EU FAIR3-CT96-1849)	CAPRI Overview
	Final Report

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General information

• EU framework project 1997-1999
• Development and application of an EU-wide agricultural sector model:
• covering about 200 regions (NUTS 2 level)
• in order to evaluate regional and aggregate impacts of the CAP on production, income, markets, and the environment

Network

• coordination: project team at the University of Bonn
• 6 main European partners
• each partner covers a cluster of Member States with the help of sub-contractors

Data base

• activity based breakdown of regional agricultural production (about 50 activities)
• farm and market balances, unit value prices at national level (about 60 products, 35 inputs)
• consistent to the Economic Accounts of Agriculture
• includes policy variables at regional (premiums, set-aside, base areas...) and EU-level (tariffs, administrative prices, trade quotas...)
• complete for the years 1990-1995
• sourced by Eurostat's SPEL and REGIO data bases, completed (main effort!) by national and regional statistics

Modelling concept

• comparative static equilibrium model, solved by iterating supply and market modules
• supply module: separate, regional, non-linear programming models allowing to directly implement most policy measures with highly differentiated set of activities; Allocation based on profit maximising behaviour calibrated to exogeneous elasticities (animals) and estimated multi-product cost functions (annual crops); Perrenial activity levels projected exogeneously; provision of nutrient balances and gas emissions with global warming potential based on production system
• market module: Non-spatial, net-trade, multi-commodity model; regionalised at Member State level (+Norway, Switzerland, and "Rest-of-the-world"); endogeneous world market price and flexible levies
• equilibrium ensures cleared markets for products and young animals, match of feeding requirements of national herds

Technical Solution

• use of institute software and GAMS

Further information

(download information for Acrobat (".pdf") - files)

• CAPRI Overview presented at the 65th EAAE-Seminar in Bonn, March 2000

• Final Report on the first three years of the project

• CAPRI working papers: methodological and data issues related to the project

• Historical roots: RAUMIS, SPEL and the research work in connection with the DFG_Schwerpunktprogramm.

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Last updated: Thursday, September 04, 2014

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Recent publications

• Heterogeneous impacts of neighbouring farm size on the decision to exit: evidence from Brittany, Saint-Cyr, L. D. F., Storm, H., Heckelei, T., Piet, L. (2018): European Review of Agricultural Economics jby029: pp. 1-30,
• Risk of increased food insecurity under stringent global climate change mitigation policy Hasegawa, T., Fujimori, S., Havlik, P., Valin, H., Bodirsky, B. L., Doelman, J. C., Fellmann, T., Kyle, P., Koopman, J. F. L., Lotze-Campen, H., Mason-D Croz, D., Ochi, Y., Pèrez Dominguez, I., Stehfest, E., Sulser, T. B., Tabeau, A., Takahashi, K., Takakura, J. y., van Meijl, H., van Zeist, W.-J., Wiebe, K., Witzke, H.-P. (2018):
  Risk of increased food insecurity under stringent global climate change mitigation policy, Nature Climate Change 8: 699-703.
• Are maize marketers averse to quality loss in supplies? A case study from Ghana Bassey, N. E., Kuhn, A., Storm, H. (2018):
  "Are maize marketers averse to quality loss in supplies? A case study from Ghana", Agricultural Economics
• Tracking the Quality Premium of Certified Coffee: Evidence from Ethiopia Minten, B., Dereje, M., Engida, E., Tamru, S. (2018):
  "Tracking the Quality Premium of Certified Coffee: Evidence from Ethiopia", World Development 101: 119-132
• Modelling heterogeneous firms and non-tariff measures in free trade agreements using Computable General Equilibrium Jafari, Y., Britz, W. (2018):
  "Modelling heterogeneous firms and non-tariff measures in free trade agreements using Computable General Equilibrium", Economic Modelling
• Reducing omitted-variable bias in spatial-interaction models by considering multiple neighbourhoods Storm, H., Heckelei, T. (2018):
  "Reducing omitted-variable bias in spatial-interaction models by considering multiple neighbourhoods", Spatial Economic Analysis
• Does the current trade liberalization agenda contribute to greenhouse gas emission mitigation in agriculture? Himics, M., Fellmann, T., Barreiro-Hurle, J., Witzke, H.-P., Perez Dominguez, I., Jansson, T., Weiss, F.(2018:
  "Does the current trade liberalization agenda contribute to greenhouse gas emission mitigation in agriculture?", Food Policy article in press
• Major challenges of integrating agriculture into climate change mitigation policy frameworks Fellmann, T., Witzke, H.-P., Weiss, F., van Doorslaer, B., Dusan, D., Huck, I., Salputra, G., Jansson, T., Leip, A. (2018:
  "Major challenges of integrating agriculture into climate change mitigation policy frameworks", Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 23(3), pp 451-468
• Metrics, models and foresight for European sustainable food and nutrition security: The vision of the SUSFANS project Rutten, M., Achterbosch, T., de Boer, I., Crespo Cuaresma, J., Geleijnse, M., Havlik, P., Heckelei, T., Ingram, J. S., Leip, A., Marette, S., van Meijl, H., Soler, L. -G., Swinnen, J. F., van't Veer, P., Vervoort, J., Zimmermann, A., Zimmermann, K. and Zurek, M. (2018):
  "Metrics, models and foresight for European sustainable food and nutrition security: The vision of the SUSFANS project", Agricultural Systems 163, pp.45-57
• Climate change impacts on crop yields, land use and environment in response to crop sowing dates and thermal time requirements Zimmermann, A., Webber, H., Zhao, G., Ewert, F., Kros, H., Wolf, J., Britz, W. and de Vries, W. (2017):
  "Climate change impacts on crop yields, land use and environment in response to crop sowing dates and thermal time requirements", Agricultural Systems 157, p. 81-92
• Effect of off-farm income on smallholder commercialization: panel evidence from rural households in Ethiopia Woldeyohanes, T. B., Heckelei, T. and Surry, Y. (2017):
  "Effect of off-farm income on smallholder commercialization: panel evidence from rural households in Ethiopia", Agricultural Economics 48(2), p. 207-218
• Multi-scale resilience of a communal rangeland system in South Africa Rasch, S., Heckelei, T., Storm, H., Oomen, R. and Naumann, C.(2017):
  "Multi-scale resilience of a communal rangeland system in South Africa", Ecological Economics 131, p. 129-138