Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert die Entwicklung von Erlösdisparitäten innerhalb der deutschen Landwirtschaft und versucht die Bedeutung der EU-Agrarstützung in dem Zusammenhang zu identifizieren. Dazu wird die tatsächliche Streuung der Erlöse mit einer hypothetischen Situation ohne...

This paper offers an explanation for variations in the effectiveness of trade unions to obtain legislative and policy concessions in peak-level tripartite negotiations in post-communist East Central Europe. I examine the usefulness of some standard interpretations for such variations, namely...

Mit zunehmender Globalisierung, nicht zuletzt auch seit den Erweiterungen der Europäischen Union sehen sich Konsumenten mit einer Fülle an Produkten aus einer Vielzahl an Ländern konfrontiert. Doch nicht nur auf Endabnehmer wirken sich diese Veränderung aus, auch gewerbliches Kaufverhalten...

Ausgangspunkt der Untersuchung sind die beobachtbaren Diversifikationen agrarwirtschaftlichen Handelns in Deutschland. Einkommensrückgänge und Betriebsschließungen in einigen Bereichen der Landwirtschaft stehen andere Bereiche mit großer Entwicklungsdynamik in bestimmten Räumen gegenüber....

The aim of this paper is to quantitatively assess the long run economic impact of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) abolition, where in particular, we focus on the Spanish economy. To carry out our analysis, we employ the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) computable general equilibrium model...

The objective of this study is to measure the level of the European Union's (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) price support system (PSS) applied to producers in the EU-15 and in Turkey. The producer subsidy estimate (PSE) method has been used to determine protection levels for selected...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Australian agricultural firms display big bath behaviour during droughts by recognising extraordinary and abnormal losses. It is hypothesised that Australian agricultural firms are more likely to report big bath losses in drought years...

This paper examines the effects of decoupling policies on Greek cotton production under the hypothesis that producers face uncertainty about output price and quantity. Using our estimation results we simulate the effects on cotton production under four alternative policy scenarios: the ‘Old’...

In this paper we evaluate empirically the absolute and relative size of risk-related effects of a farm policy change, with specific reference to the CAP arable crop regime. We adopt a dual framework under non linear mean-variance risk preferences, which incorporates the impact of price...

The various assessments of the effects of a liberalization of world sugar markets are inconsistent with each other. One cause seems to be the modeling of the EU supply response. We investigate three possible linkages between sugar production under quota and the out-of-quota or "C" sugar supply:...