The objective of this paper is to analyse farm strategies and investment behaviour in a sample ofselected Italian farm-households facing different scenarios, with a particular focus on the effects ofthe 2003 CAP reform. Models were built for individual households using multi-criteria...

Investment models typically explain only a small share of the total investmentvariation within or between firms. A reason for this may be that those models do not explicitlydifferentiate between the decision to invest and the decision about the level of investment. Inthis paper, a two-steps...

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...