The paper aims to identify whether production characteristics, such as technical efficiency and returns to scale, affect takeovers. Applying a two-stage procedure on original panel data on French cheese manufacturers, the paper first estimates firm-specific productive efficiency and scale...

[eng] Vertically related markets and public intervention : an application to dairy products . This paper analyses the effect of policy instruments used in the dairy sector. The analysis considers the supply of milk, the processing step characterised by joint production and final demand for...

[eng] Is forestry a profitable option for farmers? - We analyze the economic profitability of forestry production for farmers in Midi-Pyrénées (France). We first define the economic criteria used. We then present the different wood production a farmer can develop. The third section is devoted...

[eng] This paper analyses different scenarios of dairy policy reform in the European Union using a dairy spatial equilibrium model. It focuses on scenarios combining trade liberalization and changes or abolishment of the milk quota system. This study gives some insights for the design of dairy...

[fre] Ce travail cherche à évaluer l'impact d'une baisse du prix d'intervention sur le marché de la pomme de table où coexistent plusieurs qualités verticalement différenciées. Cette baisse intervient aux termes de la réforme de l'OCM «fruits et légumes» de 1996. On se place dans une...

National Health authorities recommend a decrease in the consumption of ‘added’ sugar. At the same moment, a reform of the Common Organisation of the Sugar Market will lead to a decrease by more than 30% of the sugar price in the EU. Using French data on the soft drinks purchases, this paper...

National Health authorities recommend a decrease in the consumption of ‘added’ sugar. At the same moment, a reform of the Common Organisation of the Sugar Market will lead to a decrease by more than 30% of the sugar price in the EU. Using French data on the soft drinks purchases, this paper...

We develop a structural econometric model of the vertical contracts between soft drink manufacturers and retailers to assess the impact of taxes or changes in production costs on consumer prices. Using individual data on food purchases from a representative survey of 19,000 French households in...

En utilisant les données de l'Enquête Annuelle d'Entreprise (EAE), nous évaluons l'évolution de la productivité de l'industrie agro-alimentaire française au cours de la période 1996-2006. Cette analyse est menée pour les 41 classes d'activité de cette industrie ainsi qu'à des niveaux...

The purpose of this article is to assess whether food safety regulations imposed by the European Union in the 2000s may have induced a slow-down in the productivity of firms in the food processing sector. The impact of regulations on costs and productivity has seldom been studied. This article...