Negotiations on the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) have been ongoing since2001, and progress has been slow most of the time. In July 2007 the chairman of theagricultural negotiating group, Crawford Falconer, presented draft modalities foragriculture (WTO, 2007) which document considerable...

The Barcelona Process (Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) celebrated its tenth anniversary witha Summit of Head of Governors in November 2005. A five-year work programme, agreed bythe partners, marks the renewed efforts to implement the objectives of the Euro-MediterraneanPartnership. One of the...

Die in angewandten Simulationsmodellen weit verbreiteten isoelastischen Angebots- und Nachfragesysteme haben den Nachteil, daß sie nur sehr eingeschränkt auf globale Konsistenz mit bestimmten sich aus der ökonomischen Theorie ergebenden Bedingungen zu restringieren sind. In diesem Beitrag...

The EU recently completed negotiating a series of Association Agreements withMediterranean countries. Trade preferences for agricultural goods granted under theseAgreements, as well as under former arrangements, are analyzed by calculating the valueof preference margins at several stages in the...

Turkey´s market for milk and dairyproducts is encountering growinginterest of international dairycompanies since discussions ofTurkey possibly entering the EU have becomemore serious in recent months. And there aregood reasons for being interested in theTurkish market. With more than 70...

An importexceeds a "normal" level. This paper identifies various internal and external factors that can contribute to the emergence of agricultural import surges in developing countries and discusses their relevance. External factors play a rather minor role. Internal policies, whether carried...

The EU has notified the WTO of 21 bilateral trade agreements that are currently in force with nonmember countries (WTO, 2005). Under these agreements, the EU grants almost unlimited access to its industrial markets, but only limited preferential access to its agricultural markets for various...

Das Phänomen der Subsistenzlandwirtschaft hat in einigen mittel- und osteuropäischenLändern (MOEL) zum einen eine lange Tradition, zum anderen ist es durch die ökonomischeund soziale Transformation dieser Volkwirtschaften bedingt. Generell sinkt im Verlauf derökonomischen Entwicklung der...

As a pragmatic definition applied throughout this paper, an import surge is considered a situation in which the quantity or value of imports suddenly exceeds a "normal" level. This somewhat loose concept leaves questions as to how "suddenly", "normal" and "excess" should be defined precisely,...

A major drawback of constant elasticity supply and demand systems, which are widely used in simulation models for applied policy analysis, is that they can’t be restricted to globally comply with certain conditions implied by economic theory. This paper compares constant elasticity systems to...