Income Distributional Effects of Decoupled Payments: Single Payment Scheme in the European Union

摘要

This paper analyses the effects of the Single Payment Scheme (SPS) with and without farmstructural change. Particular focus is placed on how income distributional effects and farmrestructuring are impacted by the SPS under: alternative entitlement tradability, crosscomplianceand CAP ‘greening’ requirements, different SPS implementation models, theentitlement stock, market imperfections and institutional regulations. The authors find that theSPS implication details are highly significant: farmers’ benefits can range from 100% of the SPSvalue to a negative policy incidence, and farm structural change may be hindered by the SPS.