The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of governmental market interventions in Serbia, among them a wheat export ban, on the country's integration into the international wheat market and the domestic wheat-to-bread supply chain during the global commodity price peaks in 2007/08 and...

Since the seminal work of Adam Smith, markets have been considered an efficient tool for co-ordinating the behaviour of economic agents. The basic characteristic of a market economy is that the complex system of interaction among individuals is not centrally coordinated. Under the assumption of...

Since the late 1980s, agriculture in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) has been under considerable adjustment pressure due to changing political, economic and institutional environments. These changes have been linked to the transition process, as well as the ongoing integration...

The rise of a western-style middle class in many successful emerging economies like China currently is inducing deep structural changes on agricultural world markets and within the global agri-food business. As a result of both higher incomes and concerns over product safety and quality the...

[Inhalt] Jens-Peter Loy, P. Michael Schmitz: Vorwort. S.3 - Thomas Glauben (Referent), Ivan Djuric, Linde Götz, Jens-Peter Loy, Zsombor Pàll, Oleksandr Perekhozhuk, Sören Prehn, Swetlana Renner: Zur Funktionsfähigkeit von Agrarmärkten in Transformationsökonomien: Normative Aspekte,...

The objective of this work is to investigate how Common Agricultural Policys (CAP) direct payments influence the development of farm structures and therefore performance and income disparities between farms. In this study the focus is put on the comparison of impacts of changes in direct...

This thesis focuses on testing whether land fragmentation in China has an impact on off-farm labor supply by utilizing a data set developed between 1995-2002 for the Zhejiang, Hubei and Yunnan Provinces of China. Adopting the institutional innovation theory and a microeconomic farm household...

Das Ziel der Arbeit ist es, (1) die Entstehung integrierter Strukturen im russischen Agrar- und Ernährungssektor seit Transformationsbeginn zu erklären, (2) deren Funktionsweise zu analysieren, (3) ihre Entwicklungsperspektiven und (4) ihre volkswirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen abzuschätzen....

(...) Bei dieser Ausgangslage hat sich die vorliegende Arbeit folgende Ziele gestellt: (1) Herausarbeitung der wichtigsten Einflussfaktoren für eine effiziente Produktion und eine erfolgreiche Entwicklung des russischen Geflügelfleischsektors, (2) Identifizierung effizienter Geflügelfarmen....

Motivated by the regional imbalances and the long-lasting trends of low incomes, unemployment and depopulation in many of Europes rural areas, this research delves into rural non-farm entrepreneurship as a potential way out. Up to now scholars from the field of entrepreneurial research have...