There now exists a large literature on price transmission in agro-food sectors. However, a great majority of empirical studies focus on the existence of asymmetry and, by and large, do not allow investigating the reason for its presence or absence. This is in sharp contrast to the theoretical...

In this paper we test the retail milk price integration between two countries, Poland and Hungary. Conventional linear cointegration methods do not reveal any relationship between the two prices, therefore we apply Gonzalo and Pitakaris (2006) method to test the linear cointegration null against...

The paper analyzes the dynamic interaction between dividend and investment by adopting numerical methods in a growth framework. Two benchmark models are introduced and their modified version for ethanol production is particularly studied. The transition path supports the trend of smoothing...

In this paper we analyse and compare various efficiency indicators for a number of European Union (EU) countries: Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands and Sweden. The availability of long period datasets between 1990 and 2006, allow us to concentrate on the long...

Modern theories of sales make conflicting predictions about the temporal pattern of sales, which we test using retail chain level data. In this paper, we focus on the retail sale patterns of two retail milk prices in a New Member State (NMS), Hungary using weekly data across eight retail chain...

Der Einfluss der Zugehörigkeit zu Agroholdings in Russland auf die Produktivität landwirtschaftlicher Betriebe ist wissenschaftlich umstritten. Dennoch gibt es wenige Untersuchungen über den Integrationsprozess und die Entwicklung landwirtschaftlicher Betriebe, die in eine Agroholding...

More than two decades after non-traditional export crops (NTXs) were introduced to the central highlands of Guatemala to link farmers to global markets and foster rural development, this study uses duration analysis to explore how time-varying household characteristics and external trends play...

Klimawandelfolgenabschätzung in der Landwirtschaft; Ernte-Ertrags-Modells unter Klimawandel auf Unternehmensebene; Zustandsabhängiger Ansatz; Entscheidungsfindung unter Unsicherheit; Zustandsabhängige Produktionsanalyse; Dualität; Ermittlung von dem Risikoaversion-Koeffizienten

Handelsbeschränkungen; Exportkontrollen; Ernährungskrisenpolitik; Länder der ehemaligen Sowjetunion; Funktionsfähigkeit von Agrarmärkten; Effizienz von Wertschöpfungsketten für Nahrungsmittel; Preistransmission; Preisvolatilität; Wetterextreme; Globale Ernährungssicherheit