Presently Russia is experiencing the complicated process of transforming the economic system of central planning into a socially oriented market economy. Of great importance for the success of this process is the institutional reshaping of the agricultural sector, particularly the privatisation...

Dieses Diskussionspapier ist unsere Antwort auf zahlreiche Nachfragen unserer Kollegen aus den GUS-Staaten zum Thema Versicherung in der Landwirtschaft. Demzufolge haben wir versucht die wichtigsten Aspekte von Versicherungen als Risikomanagementinstrument zu beleuchten. Das Ziel des Beitrages...

This discussion paper attempts the investigation of inefficiency with respect to water suppliers in rural areas of East and West Germany. This is done by using a nonradial measure of input-specific allocative inefficiency based on the demand system derived from a flexible cost function for the...

This paper deals with the optimal organisation of the water supplying industry by having a close look on the basic characteristics of water as a economic good as well as the specific structure of production. After the formal description of the individual stages of production and the real...

Despite significant progress in recent years, horizontal and vertical integration of the Lithuanian milk sector is not very much advanced. The primary sector is characterised by small-scale farming, the fragmentation of farmland and a low number of livestock per farms. These features cause...