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Decoupling agricultural support means reforming agricultural policies so that they reduce their interference with production decisions. This issue has been analysed in several OECD papers.

• Decoupling: A Conceptual Overview .
• Decoupling: illustrating some open questions on the production impact of different policy instruments:
• Review of Empirical Studies of the Acreage and Production Response to US Production Flexibility Contract Payments Under Supplementary Legislation
• The Impact on Investment and Production of Different Agricultural Policy Instruments — Principal Findings

Other papers have used partial equilibrium simulation models, in particular the Policy Evaluation Model (PEM), developed by the OECD. These are:

• Market Effects Of Crop Support Measures
• Effects of Quantitative Constraints on the Degree of Decoupling of Crop Support Measures
• Risk Effects of PSE Crop Measures
• The Impact on Production Incentives of Different Risk Reducing Policies

The following papers focus on the econometric estimation of impacts using either aggregate or micro household data:

• Risk Related Non-Price Effects of CAP Arable Crop Regime: Results from an FADN Sample
• The Impact of Crop Insurance Subsidies on Land Allocation and Production in Spain
• The Impact on Yields of Arable Crops of Moving from Price Support to Area Payments: a study of the CAP Reform
• Modeling the Impact of Agricultural Policies on Farm Investment under Uncertainty: the Case of the CAP Arable Crops Regime
• Dynamic Econometric Models of Manitoba Crop Investment and Production Under Risk Aversion and Uncertainty

A final paper on the policy implication derived from the work was issued:

• Decoupling: Policy Implications