Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler erbringen vielfältige Leistungen in Forschung, Lehre, Transfer sowie Dienstleistungen für die Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft. Zur Beantwortung der Frage, wie diese verschiedenen Leistungen bewertet werden, wurde 2016 eine Mitgliederbefragung der...

The redistributive implications of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU) have regained a strong interest in recent years since economic and social cohe-sion has become a major goal of European policy. The empirical evidence is surprisingly di-verse and ranges from a...

It has been largely ignored in the commodity stabilization literature that export quota schemes can cause a co-existence between a controlled and an uncontrolled market. This article analyzes the welfare implications of such a scheme on non-participating importing countries. The determinants of...

This article analyzes determinants of agricultural price protection for one important food, wheat, in a pooled cross-country and time-series analysis. For the aggregate sample it is shown that wheat price protection increases with a rising level of economic development and with a growing import...

Nationale Agrarpolitiken in Industrie- und Entwicklungsländern werden vornehmlich beschlossen, um nationale Ziele zu verwirklichen. Dies hat jedoch oft Nebenwirkungen auf den Agraraußenhandel der Entwicklungsländer. Agrarpolitiken der Industrieländer beeinflussen Niveau und Stabilität der...

This analysis is concerned with the direct impacts of the regulation of food markets under SACU on food security in the BLS countries. There are two basic rules in SACU determining trade in food and non-food products (Ettinger, 1974; Maasdorp, 1986). The first of these is that common tariffs exist...

This article shows how national interests in price-changing international commodity agreements can be measured. Two approaches are distinguished. Firstly, changes in national interests can be measured that are caused by the introduction of an international commodity agreement in an otherwise...