@article{Boulanger:332620,
      recid = {332620},
      author = {Boulanger, Pierre H and Philippidis, George and Jensen,  Hans Grinsted},
      title = {EU agricultural domestic support in GTAP: a proposal for  an alternative approach},
      address = {2015},
      year = {2015},
      note = {Presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Melbourne, Australia},
      abstract = {The engagement of JRC IPTS in the GTAP contributing team  to the EU domestic support has opened up the opportunity to  use the CATS database when compiling EU domestic support  payments by member state, which are subsequently calibrated  into the GTAP database. To maintain consistency, the GTAP  version 9 includes EU domestic support which follows the  approach adopted in the previous releases (Jensen, 2009,  2010). The difference is for pillar 1 support for which the  CATS data are used (in previous GTAP database releases,  pillar 1 support was based on EAGF financial reports).    All together EU domestic support amounts to 66,530 million  euros in 2011 (i.e. pillar 1 expenditures from CATS, pillar  2 and national expenditures from Producer Support Estimate  (PSE) by OECD). In addition, minor improvements to the  allocation of payments have been proposed for the version 9  release. On the other hand previous research at JRC IPTS  (Boulanger and Philippidis, 2014, 2015) showed that when  comparing with the CATS database, the GTAP database was  incomplete, particularly in its representation of CAP rural  development payments, or so called pillar 2 payments.    This paper compares the EU domestic support approach  adopted in the GTAP database version 9 with an alternative  one in order to make the representation of CAP expenditures  more transparent and comprehensive. Such an alternative  allocation includes more payments than the traditional  method employed (e.g. the proposed classification includes  support currently defined as General Services Support  Estimate (GSSE) by the OECD). Finally, introducing this new  accounting convention for the EU domestic support in the  GTAP database would lead to data discrepancies with other  non-EU countries and/or regions, jeopardising robust  comparative analysis.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/332620},
}