An intermittent and lumpy pattern of investments is observed in the Dutch horticulture sector: only 16.5% of firms experience of investment spike, but they account for 67.7% of total investment. The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of time-varying and time-invariant variables on...

The entry and exit decisions, considered as investment decisions, areinvestigated in the paper. Taking into account the heterogeneity of entry andexit, the analysis is based on two types of entry-exit: real (related to theestablishment or closing of a firm), or entry-exit in a new sector...

Pine wood nematode, B. xylophilus poses a serious threat for the European forestindustry. This study applies a quantitative risk assessment to analyze the risk of pinewood nematode in the EU, by estimating the reduction expected within forestry stockavailable for wood supply and its downstream...

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...

The Israeli citrus export sector was liberalized in 1991 with the aim to increase citrus growers’ income and to improve overall efficiency of the international citrus marketing channel. However, the former government export monopoly’s activities were mainly taken over by four large companies...