Das Auslaufen der Milchquote mit dem Wirtschaftsjahr 2014/2015 gilt als weitgehend sicher (FAHLBUSCH ET AL. 2009, LATACZ-LOHMANN/HEMME 2007, 2008, EU-KOMMISSION 2007). Dies bedeutet einen entscheidenden Einschnitt in die Rahmenbedingungen der europäischen Milchwirtschaft. Unter anderem...

"What is the balance of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy more than half a century after its birth? Does it illustrate the virtues of the European model of coordinated capitalism, as opposed to U.S.-style liberal capitalism? Or is it an incoherent set of instruments that exert...

Measuring factor productivity has been important in economics since its early days as a scientific discipline for a number of reasons. The first is the availability of systematically collected agricultural data after World War I, which allowed researchers to motivate and test newly developed...