An increasing number of studies deals with consumer decisions regarding organic food, but only a few provide quantitative estimates of price and income elasticities. This paper contributes to the existing literature by providing own-price elasticity estimates as well as an analysis of the...

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...

We examine two distinct and important dimensions (e.g. symmetry vs. asymmetry and linearity vs. nonlinearity) of price transmission from international to retail coffee prices in France, Germany and the United States. We show that ignoring these two features of the price transmission process may...

During recent years, the number of farms able to generate satisfactory income fromagricultural production has continuously decreased in advanced economies. The mainreasons are the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy of 1992 and theincreasing capitalization of the primary sector. The...

Paper prepared for presentation at the 7th Industrieforum PelletsStuttgart (Germany), 10th October 2007

General economic developments as well asrecent fundamental changes in the CommonAgricultural Policy will likely impact significantly on theEuropean farm structure. Although a decline of totalfarm numbers continues to be the general observation,important differences occur across regions and...