This thesis analyzes the role served by Emergency Departments (EDs) within the French health system. In France, EDshave traditionally served as gateways between out-patient care and hospital care. Over the past few decades, most OECDcountries have experienced a sharp increase in ED visits. In particular, the increase in the use of EDs for inappropr...
Published in BMC Geriatrics
BackgroundDirect payments (DPs) are cash-payments that eligible individuals can receive to purchase care services by themselves. DPs are central to current social care policy in England, but their advantages remain controversial. This controversy is partly due to their lack of historical visibility: DPs were deployed in stages, bundled with other p...
This paper assesses the farm-level impacts of trade liberalisation and CAP removal across EU using IFM-CAP (Individual Farm Model for CAP Analysis). IFM-CAP is a static positive programming model developed to capture the full heterogeneity of EU farms in terms of feedback to policy representation and impacts. Simulation results show that a small se...
Published in Agricultural and Food Economics
The Common Agricultural Policy has traditionally provided support to farm incomes via direct payments under the Single Payment Scheme. This article analyzes whether the reform of the SPS will decrease the concentration of direct payments and evaluates the effect of the new direct payment scheme on the redistribution of farm incomes. The decompositi...
[EN] Guaranteeing farm income stability is an objective of the European Union’s and the Spanish agricultural policies. In this paper, CAP direct payments, diversification, crop insurance and an Income Stabilisation Tool (IST) were compared considering (i) their effect on farm income and income stability, (ii) the expected farmers’ willingness for a...
La distribution des aides directes de la PAC bénéficie-t-elle aux exploitations agricoles les plus favorables à l’environnement ? Suite à un état de l’art sur les méthodes d’évaluation environnementales existantes, le développement d’une méthode originale a permis de classer des exploitations agricoles du RICA en fonction de leurs effets sur l'envi...
Alessandra Kirsch, PhD student in Dijon, presented the results of her research comparing thedistribution of CAP payments and farm environmental performance. It aims to assess the extent to which the distribution of direct aids of the CAP rewards the supply for environmental public goods by farming. French FADN data are used to analyse the distribut...
A new Common Agricultural Policy was defined in 2013, with a new structure for direct payment. In Wallonia, the government implemented the following scheme: 30% for the green payment, 29.9% for the basic payment, 17% for the additional payment for the first 30 ha, 1.8% for young farmers and 21.3% for couple payments. Due to convergence, the mean su...
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The new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) defined in 2013 is implemented since 2015. It offers several options to the Member States/Regions. This paper describes the choices which have been made in Wallonia and their consequences on direct payments. It appears that 42% of the farmers will lose between 2014 and 2019, while 44% will gain and a quasi-s...
