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Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-
Universität Bonn

Institute for
Food and
Resource Economics

Chair of Economic and Agricultural Policy

Prof. Dr. Thomas Heckelei

Faculty of
Agriculture

Content

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

See also

• Current Dissertation Projects
• Projects with External Funds
  since 2004
• Projects with External Funds
  before 2004
• Dissertations
• Research Areas until 2002
• "Research Tree" 1972 - 2000

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: Wednesday, October 20, 2010

News

• Exam dates Winterterm 2012/13

Recent publications

• The policy-relevancy of impact assessment tools: Evaluating nine years of European research funding Podhora, A., Helming, K., Adenäuer, L., Heckelei, T., Kautto, P., Reidsma, P., Rennings, K., Turnpenny, J. and Jansen, J.(2012):
  "The policy-relevancy of impact assessment tools: Evaluating nine years of European research funding ", Environmental Science & Policy 31, p. 85-95
• Modeling water allocating institutions based on Multiple Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints Britz, W., Ferris, M. and Kuhn, A. (2013):
  "Modeling water allocating institutions based on Multiple Optimization Problems with Equilibrium Constraints ", Environmental Modelling & Software (in press)
• Comparison of GHG-emissionindicators for dairy farms with respect to induced abatement costs, accuracy and feasibility Lengers, B., Britz, W. and Holm-Müller, K. (2013):
  "Comparison of GHG-emissionindicators for dairy farms with respect to induced abatement costs, accuracy and feasibility", Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy
• Farm Type Effects of an EU-wide Direct Payment Harmonisation Gocht, A., Britz, W., Ciaian, P. and Gomez y Paloma, S. (2013):
  "Farm Type Effects of an EU-wide Direct Payment Harmonisation", Journal of Agricultural Economics 64(1), p. 1-32
• Policy reform and agricultural land abandonment in the EU, Land Use Policy Renwick, A., Jansson, T., Verburg, P. H., Revoredo-Giha, C., Britz, W., Gocht, A. and McCracken, D.(2013):
  "Policy reform and agricultural land abandonment in the EU", Land Use Policy 30(1), p. 446-457