In a context in which price uncertainty is likely to increase, expected market trends need to be taken carefully into account while negotiating international trade policy rules. This paper aims at analyzing what is their influence on the use of policy flexibilities in the context of WTO...

This paper aims at making the world price endogenous within the AGMEMOD modelling approach. Thisapproach constructs country-level commodity market models where supply and demand sides are equalizedon the basis of the observed domestic prices. These prices are endogenous as they depend...

This paper aims at considering policyregimes while studying international price transmissionmechanisms. The focus is on the soft wheat marketbetween the United States and the European Union inthe years 1978-2003. EU domestic and border policiesare expected to play a strong role; a...

In the so-called Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 'Health Check' the EuropeanCommission has recently proposed gradual transitional measures to allow a 'soft landing' ofthe milk sector to quota expiry. The aim of this paper is to support policy makers to get betterinsights in the implications of...

A model that integrates biophysical simulations in an economic model is used to analyze the impact of climate change on crop production. The biophysical model simulates future plant-management-climate relationships and the economic model simulates farmers’ adaptation actions to climate change...

The adequate representation of crop response functions is crucial for agri-environmental modeling and analysis. So far, the evaluation of such functions focused on the comparison of different functional forms. The perspective is expanded in this article by considering an alternative regression...

We analyze trends in yield growth and yield variability of barley, maize, oats, rye triticale and wheat in Switzerland from 1961 to 2006. In contrast to linear trends in cereal yield growth that are usually assumed for Europe, cereal yields have leveled off due to widespread extensive cereal...

The adequate representation of crop response functions is crucial for agricultural modeling and analysis. So far, the evaluation of such functions focused on the comparison of different functional forms. In this article, the perspective is expanded by also considering an alternative regression...

Site Specific Technologies (SST) can reduce environmental pollution caused by common agricultural practice. Using a case study for corn yields, we investigate the impact of climate change (CC) on profitability of SSTs. We find CC to increase spatial variability of soils with respect to optimal...

We analyze determinants of hail insurance use of Swiss farmers, covering the period 1990-2009 usingFADN panel data. Mixed effect logistic regression models are estimated to identify the most importantfarm and farmer characteristics that determine insurance use. In addition, information on local...