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...

Fertilizer subsidies are again part of the policy agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa since the 1990s. Governments spend large shares of their agricultural budgets and their means to fight poverty on such programmes, but economists formulated doubts whether these investments will pay off. This paper...

Fertilizer subsidies are again part of the policy agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa since the 1990s. Governments spend large shares of their agricultural budgets and their means to fight poverty on such programmes, but economists formulated doubts whether these investments will pay off. This paper...

Fertilizer subsidies are again part of the policy agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa since the 1990s. Governments spend large shares of their agricultural budgets and their means to fight poverty on such programmes, but economists formulated doubts whether these investments will pay off. This paper...

Die Arbeit stellt eine quantitative Untersuchung der regionalen Spillover-Effekte f?r einen sowohl sachlich als auch regional abgegrenzten Bereich - n?mlich die Gymnasien am Beispiel der Region Augsburg - dar. Dieses Ph?nomen spielt in der ?konomischen Theorie des F?deralismus und der damit...

We argue in this paper that available econometric estimates of farmers’ risk aversion do notmeasure true farmers’ preferences towards risky outcomes. Available analyses are mostly ofstatic nature and indeed measure the parameters of the synthetic optimal value function ratherthan the deep...

When building an economic model for supply analysis the aim is to model a decision makingprocess of one or more agents which fits the observed practice as good as possible. Hereby themodeller is often confronted with incomplete information about the production process; particularcrop specific...

This paper analyses the economic effects of different magnitudes of tariff cuts, different tariff cutting formulas, the implications of tariff capping as well as different numbers and width of tariff bands in the market access pillar of the Doha Round agricultural negotiations. The simulations...

Nicht zuletzt aufgrund der weltweit stark zunehmenden Nachfrage nach landwirtschaftlichen Rohstoffen zur Biokraftstoffherstellung wird mit einem starken Anstieg der Getreide- und Ölsaatenpreise gerechnet. In diesem Beitrag wurden die Auswirkungen steigender Getreidepreise auf die boomende...