How should resource-rich economies handle the balance of payments adjustment required aftercommodity price declines? This paper addresses the question theoretically by developing asimple two-period multi-sector model based on Nakatani (2016) to compare different exchangerate policies, and...

This paper examines the impact of EU enlargement on agro-food export performance across 12 new EU member states and 5 newly independent states in the EU markets covering the period 1999-2007. The performance is examined by duration of export and hazard model. We find larger duration for the...

Geographical indications (GIs) play an important in the agriculture sector; however, the link between geographical indications and quality promotion has not been adequately analysed. This paper aims to investigate the influences of geographical indications on the quality of agricultural products...

Die Ukraine und Russland spielen als Exporteure von Agrar- und Ernährungsprodukten eine zentrale Rolle für die globale Ernährungssicherheit. Die Studie von Berndt et al. (2022) untersucht mit globalen Gleichgewichtsmodellen, wie sich der Krieg im Extremfall auf globale Agrarpreise auswirken...

China, GMOs, and world trade in agricultural and textile products China has always strived for self-sufficiency in farm products, particularly staple foods. Its rapid industrialization following its opening up to global markets during the past two decades has been making that more difficult, and...

This paper aims at specifying the main determinants of the intra-industry trade in agricultural products, associated with the funds of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EC, and more precisely, with its “price support mechanism” and its “structural reform policy.” It presents...

This paper is designed to provide different explanations for the existence of credit-product interlinkage in backward agriculture. The paper shows that the credit market imperfection is not the only explanation for the existence of credit-product interlinkage. It can also be explained in terms...

Once the EU has perceived the strategic importance of local peculiarities to support rural development and high-quality productions, it has emphasized the need for more place-sensitive agri-food policies. The importance of socio-economic, historical and cultural factors as transfers of...