This paper analyses how farm access to credit affects farm input allocation and farmefficiency in the CEE countries. Drawing on a unique farm level panel data with 37,409observations and employing a matching estimator we are able to control for the keysource of endogeneity – unoberserved...

In Western Europe, USA and other developed countries agriculture is dominated by small familyfarms. In Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) and Former Soviet Union (FSU) dualstructure of farms exists. There are large corporate farms (CF) and small family farms (FF) inCEEC and FSU. Our...

Kliauga, de Gorter, and Just (2008) and de Gorter, Drabik, and Just (2010) argue that the United States and the European Union establish the world ethanol and biodiesel prices, respectively. We test these theories using a cointegration analysis and the Vector Error Correction (VEC) model. Weekly...

Factor Markets Coordination: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium

This paper examines the relationship between structural changes and EU agricultural policies and their implications in the context of the enlarged EU. The paper examines the impact of EU policies on the restructuring and competitiveness of farms in the new member states taking into account...