Zusammenfassung Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich der empirischen Analyse des Zusammenhangs zwischen Flexibilität und Betriebsgröße. Unter Verwendung von Individualdaten von über 40 000 landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben für Oberösterreich für den Zeitraum 1980 bis 1990 beobachten wir einen...

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>

The paper applies a semi-parametric propensity score matching approach to evaluate the effects of agri-environment (AE) programmes on input use and farm output of individual farms in Germany. The analysis reveals a positive and significant treatment effect of AE programmes on the area under...

We study the existence of price distributions and the intra-distribution dynamics for 10 food products across 131 retail stores in Germany for a time period of 43 weeks. Based upon Varian's (1980) model of sales, we aim at investigating whether the position of stores within the cross-sectional...

This paper derives a hedonic price function for a household's consumption bundle. In a panel-data analysis for households' expenditures on 182 different soft drinks we find that consumers have a preference for variety in food consumption, ceteris paribus.