In diesem Beitrag wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit Optimierungsansätze wie lineareProgrammierungsmodelle geeignet sind, bessere Entscheidungen als reale Entscheider zu treffen.Auch beleuchtet werden Unterschiede im Entscheidungsverhalten und in denProduktionsstrategien. Dazu lassen wir...

Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert die Entwicklung von Erlösdisparitäten innerhalb der deutschen Landwirtschaft und versucht die Bedeutung der EU-Agrarstützung in dem Zusammenhang zu identifizieren. Dazu wird die tatsächliche Streuung der Erlöse mit einer hypothetischen Situation ohne...

This article deals with the optimal differentiation of agri-environmental contracts based on a self-selection mechanism. The paper demonstrates that both economic efficiency and effectiveness of public expenditures can be increased, if a menu of combinations of farming practices and payments are...

A great deal of attention is currently being paid to the discussion ofthe reform of global agricultural trade. In this paper, the effects ofthe revised Harbinson paper (March 2003) are analysed with anextensively extended GTAP model. With the help of a base run,projections are implemented in the...

The introduction of the current Common European Agricultural Policy in ten new member states in central and eastern Europe will be a major financial challenge for the European Union. On the basis of the partial equilibrium model ESIM this article analyses potential consequences of different...

The aim of this contribution is to examine how the French and theGerman positions on agricultural policy have developed since thefoundation of the EEC and what the driving forces were behind. The“general consensus” underlying the EEC treaty, and according towhich the common market would be...

The East-Enlargement of the EU raises several questions regarding the EU-budget. This holds for both policy areas for which financial transfers are made out of the EU budget; the structural policies and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). This paper focuses on the impact of implementing the...

The breakdown of the planned economy in the Czech Republic induced many changes for the Czech sugar industry. Successful restructuring should foster competitiveness of sugar production and processing. Another target of the sugar sector is its preparation for EU-accession by adjusting to EU...

This discussion paper presents the results of a study on the impacts of EU East enlargement on the EU agricultural budget. The calculations have been carried out with the partial equilibrium model 'Central and Eastern European Countries Agricultural Simulation Model (CEECASIM) that has been...