for adaption processes which often involve leveraged investments that, in turn, cause decreasing equity capital ratios of farms. It is, therefore, possible that financial flexibility - as the farm's debt capacity - will also decrease. The question arises to what extent decision makers consider...

The internet plays a promising role for the future development of rural areas and offers several potential business relevant applications for agricultural entrepreneurs. Yet, little is known about the determinants of internet use intensity of German farmers. Thus, this paper empirically explores...

The European Union has established the Water Framework Directive (WFD) as a legal framework to protect all aquatic ecological systems including groundwater. This directive is primarily aiming at water protection and may have advantages for the water regime in sensitive areas. Nevertheless, it...

Weather index-based insurance is not sufficiently used in agriculture as of yet. Basis risks are considered to be a major reason for this. By the use of weather in-dex-based insurance, basis risks remain with the farmer. However, weather index-based insurance can be interesting for agribusiness...

Weather-index insurances are innovative risk management instruments that - compared to conventional insurances - cause low administration and regulation costs and are not accompanied by moral hazard or adverse selection problems. Despite these advantages, farmers make little use of weather-index...

Die Verfasser untersuchten mit einem Investitionsexperiment, ob sich das Investitionsverhalten bei gleichbleibenden Bedingungen durch das Framing - der Beschreibung einer Investitionsmöglichkeit in die ökologische beziehungsweise konventionelle Wirtschaftsweise - verändert. Als Ergebnis war...

Optimization has been recognized as a powerful tool in teaching and research for a long time. In spite of its well known problem solving capacity, some methodological obstacles have persisted over the years. The main problem is that stochastic variables and their correlations cannot be...

Improving the welfare of animals is an important aim in livestock farming. Thereby, farmers' willingness to implement animal welfare practices directly influences the welfare of animals. Therefore, this paper investigates pig farmers' preferences and willingness to accept the implementation of...

In order to provide a sustainable renewable energy production in biogas plants, it is necessary to examine substrates apart from silage maize on their suitability and acceptance in society. In this context, sugar beets gain more and more importance for the production of biogas. To date, there...

Digital risk management tools (RMTs) are promising to help farmers manage risk. However, these recently developed tools are still unexplored and hardly used by farmers. This study is the first to investigate how German farmers perceive the usefulness of digital RMTs and which factors influence...