Cooperatives and Payment Schemes -- Content -- Preface -- Guidance for readers -- 1 Summary -- 1.1 The Danish pig industry as an example -- 1.2 The theoretical challenge -- 1.3 The practical challenge -- 1.4 The criteria -- 1.5 Payment schemes -- 1.6 Multiple-criteria evaluation -- 1.7...

The reform of the EU sugar regime involves significant price reductions for sugar and sugar beet. We examine whether the Danish sugar industry can maintain production and profit levels by reallocating production from less to more efficient farmers. The impact of alternative reallocation...

A generalised cross entropy instrumental variables estimator is used to recover the non-stationary transition probability matrix for the Danish pork industry. A technique is also developed to recover missing data points due to category re-specifications. The impact of a set of exogenous...

The purpose of this paper is to provide some evidence on the push and pull factors that motivate farmers to expand across their home countries’ borders. The focus is on Danish expansion farmers and investor farmers setting up activities in Central and Eastern European countries like Slovakia,...

In this paper, we present a theoretical model for adjustment costs and investment utilisation that illustrates their causes and types and shows in which phases of an investment they occur. Furthermore, we develop an empirical framework for analysing the size and the timing of adjustment costs...