The present dissertationis devoted to the issue of price discovery in agricultural markets. Price discovery is considered one of the central functions of financial markets and is usually analyzed empirically for highly homogeneous assets traded on these markets. We investigate whether this...

The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union (CAP) has a long tradition. After World War II, agricultural and food production in Europe was substantially weakened and unable to provide sufficient food for the domestic population. The CAP emerged from this situation, with the objectives...

While economic growth in many low- and middle-income (LMICs) has led to the reduction of poverty and undernutrition, some of these LMICs are undergoing a simultaneous increase in overnutrition and micronutrient deficiency. Urbanization is one of the widely attributed factors for this nutrition...

Interventionen unter dem Europäischen Landwirtschaftsfonds für die Entwicklung des Ländlichen Raums 2007-2013, die „Netzwerken“ und „New modes of Governance“ in ihr instrumentelles Konzept einschließen, sind LEADER, zur Unterstützung integrierter Entwicklung ländlicher Regionen,...

Seit nahezu drei Jahrzenten befinden sich die Zentralasiatischen Länder in einem fortlaufenden Transformationsprozess. Die Motivation dieser Dissertation leitet sich aus den unterschiedlichen Reaktionen ländlicher Gesellschaften auf den Agrarwandel ab. Diese weisen gemeinsame institutionelle...