Do EU direct payments to beef producers belong in the 'blue box'?

The CAP in Disarray: EU Commission Proposes Basic Direct Payments to EU Farmers

Equalization of Direct Payments in Poland to the Level Applicable in Other Eu Countries

The paper tackles the problem of making direct payments in the EU countries more equal. Two sets of indices and their evolution are being presented: payment rates per product and per hectare of eligible area. The need of redistribution of direct payments is being stressed, followed by the discussion on different scenarios of distribution among Member States. The model finally accepted by the EU...

EU-wide Distributional Effects of EU Direct Payments Harmonization analyzed with CAPRI

A New Approach to Compare the Impact of Direct and Indirect Payments on Regional Macroeconomic Indices

Several procedures have been employed to examine the impacts of subsidies on different indices in an economy. This paper proposes a new approach enabling one to compare direct and indirect payments on households. To this end, the impact of government payments is examined on Gross Regional Products, Employment, Income Distribution and Inflation of Golestan Province in Iran through a Social Accou...

Do Moonlighting Proteins Belong to the Intrinsically Disordered Protein Class?

Moonlighting proteins refer to those proteins presenting two or more functions performed by a single polypeptide chain. They were initially reported by Wistow and Piatigorsky in the late 1980s when lens crystallins turned out to be previously known metabolic enzymes [1,2]. Moonlighting proteins present alternative functions which are mostly related to cellular localization, cell type, oligomeri...