Many international organisations, including the European Parliament, see reducing food loss and waste as a priority. They argue that this will increase the efficiency of resource use and have beneficial environmental effects. This paper asserts that the scale of the problem has been overstated...

Direct payments were originally justified as a mechanism to compensate farmers for the income loss incurred due to reduced intervention prices. However, this rationale is not valid any more, and a new justification for basic income support by granting basic decoupled direct payments has been...

Bedeutung von Institutionen für die Agrarpreisbildung -- Preisrelationen in einer geschlossenen und offenen Volkswirtschaft -- Preisbildung auf dem Bodenmarkt -- Besonderheiten landwirtschaftlicher Arbeits- und Kreditmärkte -- Technischer Fortschritt in der Landwirtschaft und Agrarpreise --...

type="main" xml:id="jage12050-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>Standard double auctions perfectly mimic the neoclassical idea about the functioning of markets. The efficiency of the market outcome and speed of adjustment towards equilibrium have been studied in the literature to validate economic...</p>