RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF THE EU FARMLAND MARKETS: NATIONAL VARIABLES AND COMPARATIVE EFFECTS OF THE CAP REFORM IN SELECTED COUNTRIES; Proceedings of the Fourth Minnesota Padova Conference on Food ,Agriculture, and the Environment, September 4-10, 1994, MN

The present paper consists of two main parts.The first one gives a picture of the more recent development of the farmland market in selected EC countries since 1985/86. Two main indicators are used to make relatively comparable the observed trends concerning:i) land mobility,ii) farmland values. The second one tries to evaluate the effects of the CAP reform and the influence of national variables overtime, taking into account the following indicators:i) mobility (on land transfers; on tenancy),ii) income (for agricultural or forest use),iii) farmland values (in the plain; in the hill/mountain areas).Considerations on land market complexity and segmentation are finally included, with justification on the empirical approach adopted in the paper.