Media reports could help shape consumer attitudes towards food quality and safety. By introducing an information treatment with positive or negative media coverage, we study the impact on consumer preference for pork products. The hypothesis is tested by a hypothetical choice experiment with 788...

Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre werden verschiedene Internet-basierte Informationssysteme für den überbetrieblichen Austausch von produkt- und prozessbezogenen Daten zwischen Landwirten und den vor- und nachgelagerten Wertschöpfungsstufen entwickelt. Obwohl die meisten IT-Lösungen inzwischen...

Overbuilding in commercial real estate in the 1980s is commonly viewed as an example of a speculative bubble. This paper questions that view and proposes an environment in which overbuilding could occur as a rational response to fiscal policy in the 1980s. Further, this paper contends that...

The idea that individuals adapt their behaviors in response to changes in incentive systems is fundamental to most economic analysis. This paper incorporates the concept of price discovery costs into the incentive theory to offer a theoretical model and empirical evidence on the differential...

Pandemic caused by the new coronavirus has affected both farmers and the country's economy. In this study will be analyzed aspects such as: the balance of pork made in Romania (slaughter, average weight at slaughter, total production, consumption) price, pig herds, import and export. Pork is one...

In March 2012, Greece conducted one of the biggest and most brutal sovereign debt restructurings ever, asking holders of Greek government bonds to take net present value haircuts of near 80 percent. Greece forced acquiescence to its terms from a large number of its bonds by using a variety of...

In Romania, pork represents 50% of the total types of meat consumed per capita, which places it in the first place in the hierarchical distribution of the most consumed types of meat nationally. These data underline the importance of the pig sector and the relevance of studying the economic...

Derzeit werden in Deutschland die Nutztierhaltung und insbesondere die Schweinehaltung kontrovers diskutiert. In diesem Zusammenhang, werden die Forderungen nach höheren Tierwohlstandards lauter. Allerdings führen höhere Tierwohlstandards zu höheren Produktionskosten. Vor diesem Hintergrund...