In diesem Beitrag werden ökonomische Wirkungen einer staatlichen Förderung der Regionalvermarktung von Lebensmitteln untersucht. Zwei Arten von staatlichen Instrumenten werden dabei unterschieden. Zunächst wird eine zentral-regionale und/oder eine regionale Gemeinschaftswerbung für ein...

The 2003 reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy of the Euro-pean Union allowed for discretionary implementation among member states. Discretion was allowed with respect to the timing and the degree of decoupling of policy support. Differences among member states were particularly apparent in...

The 2003 reforms of the Common Agricultural policy of the European Union introduced decoupled income transfers as the most prominent policy instrument. However, member states were given substantial discretion over the degree and timing of the reform implementation. As a result, different...

This paper presents empirical evidence on the interplay important topics of consumer price rigidity and market power in the German food retail industry. In particular, the analysis addresses the causal relationship between market structure - collusion - and pricing behaviour highlighted in the...

This paper investigates the impact of product differentiation on firm-specific and industry-wide cost pass-through in grocery retailing. We use attribute distance measures to model product differentiation based on a unique set of retail scanner data for ready-to-eat soup products in the Canadian...

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist eine vergleichende Untersuchung des Innovationsverhaltens im verarbeitenden Gewerbe anhand eines Querschnittsdatensatzes des Mannheimer Innovationspanels. Die Besonderheiten des Ernährungsgewerbes werden durch eine kombinierte Analyse von Innovationsinput- und...

Purpose: We provide primary data on salt iodisation of processed foods in Germany, analyse reasons for food processors' use or non-use of iodisation and derive implications for public health. Design/methodology/approach: Statistical evidence is presented on the use of iodised salt in bread and...