The skilled crafts are still an essential element in the German economy. The characteristics of these companies, however, have changed dramatically in recent years. Previously, medium-scale enterprises of approximately 5 to 49 employees dominated. In recent years, however, a polarisation of the...

The direct payment system of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) provides income transfers to European farmers. Recently, several countries including England and Sweden have advocated the elimination of direct payments after 2013. The extent to which an elimination of direct payments would...

Cross Compliance (CC) is a mechanism for encouraging farmers to fulfill certain environmental conditions in return for governmental support payments. Introduced to United States (US) and European Union (EU) agricultural policy from the 80s onwards, upcoming new US (Farm Bill 2012) and EU (Common...

Durch die Dezentralisierung und Flexibilisierung von Agrarumweltpolitik soll u.a. der Anonymität und mangelnden Transparenz von Entscheidungsmechanismen sowie bestehenden Zentralisierungstendenzen und Demokratiedefiziten entgegengewirkt werden. Auf regionaler und lokaler Ebene spielen dabei vor...

The present study aims at unraveling the acceptability and potential of flood insurance as a viable mechanism to cope the financial risk associated with flood events in rural Pakistan. Moreover, the factors influencing rural households’ willingness to pay for flood insurance are also analyzed....

The exact distributions of many functions of random vectors are derived in the literature mainly for the case of a Gaussian vector distribution or under the assumption that the vector follows a spherical or an elliptically contoured distribution. Numerous standard statistical applications are...