The AGMEMOD Partnership seeks to capture the inherent existingheterogeneity of agricultural systems by linking together individualEU Member State models, an aggregated EU model and severalaccession countries into one single model, while still maintaininganalytical consistency. Although this...

This study provides an in-depth modelbased quantitative analysis of the implications of thedairy policy reform on the milk and dairy market aswell as on other agricultural markets in the EU27,EU15, EU12 and the individual MS. The objectives ofthe study are threefold:1. to assess the implications...

Against the background of increasing concerns regarding the energy supply security as well asenvironmental concern the interest for renewable energy sources has increased in recent years. Thebiofuel sector, backed by public policies, experienced a strong increase in and outside Europe....

The potential accession of Turkey to the EU, and the related adoption of the CAP by Turkey,is expected to influence agricultural markets in both the EU and Turkey. The extent of theaccession impacts depends on the one hand on the way the CAP will be implemented inTurkey, while on the other hand...

Since 2000, the two important reforms of The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)took place. The Agenda 2000 Berlin Agreement of March 1999 aimed to increase EUagriculture market orientation and focuses on the grain, oilseed, dairy and the beef sectors. Itreduced intervention prices in these...

The paper investigates economic performance of the Eastern Slovenia region in the changed economic and policy environment after the accession to the EU. The likely impacts of public expenditure in the field of cohesion and agricultural policy in the period of the Community financial perspective...

The WTO agricultural negotiations of the Doha round are a key issue in the public debate. This paper analyses the effects of different options to improve market-access on the basis of a GTAP model, comparing the impact of the Harbinson proposal and the Swiss formula on trade balances. An...

A great deal of attention is currently being paid to the discussion ofthe reform of global agricultural trade. In this paper, the effects ofthe revised Harbinson paper (March 2003) are analysed with anextensively extended GTAP model. With the help of a base run,projections are implemented in the...

Enlarging the EU presents a tremendous effort with obstacles for old and new member states especially in the agricultural sector. In this paper, impacts of a new accession round were analyzed with the help of the comparative-static general equilibrium model GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project)....

The paper presents an extended gravity equation application for the global trade with ethanol.The background and different attempts for a theoretical foundation of the standard approachare discussed. The econometric work takes regional integration schemes into account, as wellas the influence of...