The economic theory links the growth of production factors remuneration with the productivity improvement. In the case of contemporary European agriculture, among the most important income creators are money transfers, namely direct payments. These transfers are part of the agricultural and...

An increased volatility of agricultural products' prices, observed in recent years, has caused a greater exposure of market participants to the market risk. The main goal of this article is to estimate the volatility of price returns in the grain legumes grown in Poland and the ground soybean...

Price linkages between the Polish and foreign markets of grains and pork were investigated in the paper. The analysis indicates a decrease in price differences between the Polish and the EU markets and their increase between the Polish and the US markets. Causality tests and VAR models indicate...

Ensuring high quality and food safety has become one of the priorities of the Common Agricultural Policy both at the European Union and individual countries within it, including Poland. Therefore, in the Rural Development Programme for 2007–2013 has been proposed in Measure 132 to a special...

Over the period of 2011-2012 the scope of economic activities in many Member States decreased. As a result of that the demand for food declined. The situation on labour market deteriorated - unemployment increased and employment went down. The rate of household income growth diminished. An...

The aim of this research was an attempt at indicating the Polish agriculture’s place in the EU-27 agriculture basing on the outputs realized, the inputs and the results obtained by farms. Data from the FADN database was used. It was the weighted averages per farm in each of the 27 EU member...

A model of the economic appraisal of flood protection projects using the NPV indicator is presented with a recent enlargements concerning economic valuation of casualties and psychological losses in victims’ well-being. This year’s series of big floods in Poland has made this topic come back...

Observed increased volatility of world commodity prices causes an increase of risk exposure. Thus market participants can not achieve the desired value of their goal function. The aim of this research was an assessment of wheat prices volatility in selected EU member states. Results of the...

Mark-up plays nowadays the major role in plenty of DSGE models, and defining its cyclicality is one of the most demanding challenges in macroeconomics. The aim of the article was to measure price-cost margins (PCM) used as a proxy for mark-ups and their variation in the EU countries food...

Relative cross-country price volatility increases business risk and distorts efficient sector-level investment allocation. In order to answer the questions of “if” and “how” market structures affect relative price volatility, and using annual data from 14 manufacturing branches in 27 EU...