The paper investigates the impact of subsidies and of para-agriculture on the technical efficiency of organic farms in Switzerland, Austria and Southern Germany. The data-set consists of bookkeeping data with 1,704 observations in the years 2003 to 2005. Technical efficiency is modelled using a...

[...] Das Ziel dieser Studie ist eine Untersuchung der zwei unterschiedlichen Wachstumsdimensionen landwirtschaftliche Nutzfläche und landwirtschaftlicher Umsatz sowie die Bestimmung der Faktoren, die das Wachstum - oder die Stagnation - auf Ökobetrieben beeinflussen Wir analysieren einen...

Analysis of price transmission in transition countries is often complicated by unstable policy environments. We use a Markov-switching vector error-correction model (MSVECM) to model multiple regime shifts in the relationship between wheat and wheat flour prices in Ukraine from June 2000 to...

Over the last decade the link between agricultural and oil markets has reinforced after the introduction of biofuels as substitutes for gasoline and diesel. Although the literature on price transmission between these markets is prolific, research on second order moment dynamics is scant. This...