Understanding the Determinants of Investment Reactions to Decoupling
The objective of this paper is identify the determinants of reaction to decoupling,
focusing, in particular, on farm strategies and investment behaviour both on-farm and offfarm
investment. The paper analyses a sample of 248 farm-households located in 8 EU
countries, using decision tree algorithms. The factors emerging as determinants of an increase
of on-farm investment as a reaction to decoupling are the existence of a successor, age, farm
size, part time vs. full time head of farm. Allowing for the use of country variables, these tend
to account already for the factors listed above and become the main predictors, followed by
labour endowment, specialisation and expectations.
GALLERANI Vittorio;
GOMEZ Y PALOMA Sergio;
RAGGI Meri;
VIAGGI Davide;
2009-07-20
Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics
JRC49315
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/44841,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC49315,
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