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South East Europe PTA's- Step Forward to EU or Not?

Simić, Jelena Damnjanović; Zakić, Vladimir - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2013

poverty. PTAs are increasingly used as engines of change in many developing countries, to promote, implement, and lock in … PTAs may promote development, they necessarily discriminate against nonmembers and can therefore lead to trade diversion in … a way that hurts both member countries and excluded countries. Also, the proliferation of bilateral and regional PTAs …

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The Cost Function Structure of Dutch Dairy Farms: Effects of Quota abolition and Price Volatility

Samson, G.S.; Gardebroek, Koos; Jongeneel, Roelof A. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012

This paper investigates potential impacts on milk production of Dutch dairy farms if feed prices increase, milk prices decrease and milk quotas are abolished. A quadratic cost function is estimated using panel data on individual dairy farms of the Dutch FADN. Marginal costs and revenues are...

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The Legal Protection of GIs in TTIP: Is There an Alternative to the CETA Outcome

O'Connor, Bernard - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2015

The protection of European Geographical Indications has been a point of conflict between the European Union and the United States for many years. The essential difference is in how GIs should be protected, if they should be protected at all. The US considers that they can be protected as a...

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Geographical Indications and Territories with Specific Geographical Features in the EU: the Cases of Mountain and Island Areas

Santini, Fabien; Guri, Fatmir; Aubard, Audrey; Gomez y … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2015

One of the goals of geographical indications in the EU is to contribute to rural development of remote and less-favoured areas. On the base of a rough estimation of the uptake of geographical indications in mountain and island areas of the EU, it can be concluded that indeed agricultural and...

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Impact of the economic and the political changes on consumers' wine preferences in Catalonia (Spain): a generalized multinomial logit approach

Escobar, Cristina; Kallas, Zein; Gil, José María - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2015

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Influence of Political Campaign Contributions by American Agribusiness Firms on U.S. Farm Policy

Serrao, Amilcar - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2002

This study adapts Ndayisenga and Kinsey's econometric model of the allocation of political campaign contributions by agribusiness firms. This model combines information on campaign contributions for political influence with the behavior assumption of profit maximization to test the hypotheses...

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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IN THE CAP DECISION MAKING: A CASE STUDY ON THE SUGAR REFORM

Iagatti, Matteo; Sorrentino, Alessandro - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

This paper represents the first step of a wider research project on the relation between the EU institutional settings and the policy outcome. We specifically tackle the CAP definition process and the role of the Commission inside consultation procedure, proposing a case study on the sugar CMO...

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When are Private Standards more Stringent than Public Standards?

Vandemoortele, Thijs - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

Retailers’ private standards are increasingly important in addressing consumer concerns about safety, quality and social and environmental issues. Empirical evidence shows that these private standards are frequently more stringent than their public counterparts. I develop a political economy...

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Evaluating rural development policy - review of the CMEF

Huelemeyer, Kerstin; Schiller, Simone - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

With the Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF) a guidance document for evaluation of rural development policy has been published by the European Commission. The CMEF defines the requirements on monitoring and evaluation and specifies a limited number of quantitative common indicators...

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Environmental payments in conflicting situations between nature provision and cost minimization: a political economy approach

Nuppenau, Ernst-August - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

We will analyze a newly emerging conflict within the second pillar of the rural development policy of the EU: a conflict between those farmers, who want to participate in high nature value agriculture, and farmers, who feel negatively impacted by supporting nature provision. We see a link...

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