The Use of Agent-Based Modelling to Establish a Link between Agricultural Policy Reform and Structural Change
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This paper motivates the use of agent-based modelling to study policy impacts on systems of
heterogeneous, individually acting agents, such as agricultural structures. The paper presents
the model AgriPoliS and an application to a region in southwest Germany. The policies considered
in the simulation experiments aim at increasing the efficient allocation of production
factors. Results show that policies providing incentives for small farms to leave the sector
speed up structural change and increase efficiency. The paper ends with an extensive discussion
of model results, and the approach.