The introduction of cross-compliancemechanism in the European Union with its 2003 CAP-reformmight affect the costs of production and thuscompetitiveness of the EU. Little evidence is available toasses the costs of compliance with regulations and it implicationfor trade. In this study a farm...

Der Transformationsprozess Russlands von einer zentralstaatlich geplanten Volkswirtschafthin zu einer Marktwirtschaft nach westlichem Vorbild liefert eine aufschlussreiche Fallstudieüber die von William Baumol (1990) vertretene These der institutionellen Steuerbarkeit vonproduktivem...

Our aim is to investigate whether the direct payments and rural development measures of theEU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) do make jobs in agriculture safer. We work with adynamic labour demand equation that is augmented by the full set of policy instruments of theCAP. It is estimated on...

In this study, we theoretically and empirically investigate the determinants of Bt-maize adoption in German regions. Specifically, we ask how the regulatory framework, the farm structures as well as the socio-political environment of GM expansion in Germany have influenced regional adoption...