@article{DeVivo:98984,
      recid = {98984},
      author = {De Vivo, Carmela and Henke, Roberto and Pupo D'Andrea,  Maria Rosaria and Vanni, Francesco},
      title = {The effects of decoupling on Italian COP sector:  an  ex-post evaluation},
      address = {2011-02-10},
      number = {705-2016-48308},
      pages = {19},
      month = {Feb},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {One of the main objectives of the 2003 CAP reform was that  to enhance farm competitiveness and make farmers able to  catch market signals and adjust their production level and  specialization accordingly.
The aim of the paper is to  evaluate the effects of decoupling in Italy COP sector  comparing the estimated results of some structural and  economic indicators of a sample of farms before and after  the 2003 reform using data from the Italian Institute of  Statistics and of the Italian Farm Accountancy Data Network  (FADN). 
The analysis shows an improvement of income in  farms that kept COP production specialization through the  years under study. At the same time, farms that opted for a  different specialisation in the post reform period improved  their economic performance. All this suggests that coupled  support had become a constraint rather than an opportunity  and that the 2003 reform, decoupling farm support from  production, has contributed to a more efficient and  market-oriented COP sector in Italy.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/98984},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.98984},
}