The influence of international trade on the growth of GDP has undergone some changes over time. The paper presents national trade between Poland and Germany with special emphasis on the agro food trade. The paper includes the estimation of the effects of Polish income obtained through trade with...

Paper prepared for presentation at the Fifth International Symposium on Management of Technology (ISMOT’07) Hangzhou (China), ZheJiang University, 1st to 3rd June 2007

The main objective of this article is to evaluate the agriculture diversification in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and eastern Germany based on selected characteristics of production potential.. The NUTS 2 level was adopted for the analysis. Agriculture diversification was examined using the...

A structural market model is estimated to analyse the impact of market power on resource allocation in the German and Hungarian pork markets. The regression analyses suggest that market power exists, although on a relatively low level. Moreover, the estimates show that processors might pursue...

Der deutsche Lebensmitteleinzelhandel ist durch einen starken Preiswettbewerb gekennzeichnet. Hinweise für funktionierenden Wettbewerb sind einheitliche Preise und gleichzeitige Preisänderungen (Preissynchronisation) bei homogenen Gütern. Im deutschen Lebensmitteleinzelhandel sind jedoch...

Due to manifold scandals meat production and processing has been in the spotlight of public concern over the last decades. CSR can safeguard an enterprise against risks following e.g. food safety, environmental or social incidences in a sector. To reap the full benefit of their CSR involvement...

Since 2000 Germany has a fairly unique market mechanism to trade milk quotas between dairy farms. The two major features are: (1) a quasi auctioning system that produces excess demands which are covered by state reserves free of charge and (2) a price band is used to exclude high price bids. For...

The paper bases itself on recent theoretical writings in growth economics that emphasize the effects of both own R&D efforts and of interregional technology spillovers on regions´ productivity. We propose robust estimation techniques to evaluate the R&D spillovers across West German functional...

The paper bases itself on recent theoretical writings in growth economics that emphasize the effects of both own R&D efforts and of interregional technology spillovers on regions´ productivity. We propose robust estimation techniques to evaluate the R&D spillovers across West German functional...

Dieser Aufsatz nutzt geheime Einzeldaten aus amtlichen Erhebungen in niedersächsischen Industriebetrieben, um einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Exportbooms zu werfen. Hierbei zeigt sich eine ausgeprägte Heterogenität der Exportdynamik zwischen Betrieben innerhalb einer Hauptgruppe,...