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Agricultural and non-agricultural outputs and energy consumption in Tunisia: empirical evidences from cointegration and causality

Chebbi, Houssem Eddine; Boujelbene, Y. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

This short paper investigates the cointegration and causality link between energy consumption and agricultural, non-agricultural outputs (manufacturing sector and services sector) and overall gross domestic product in Tunisia for 1971-2003 period. Empirical results suggest that there is only...

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The Dynamics of Agricultural Productivity and Industrial Transformation in Transition Countries

Kim, Hanho; An, Donghwan - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

Relying on the frontier production approach, we investigated the performance of the agricultural sector in 28 transition countries and its changes over time, especially focusing on the dynamics of productivity changes and the effects of reform policy. Our findings are: (i) Asian and CEE...

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A Composite Fuzzy Indicator for Assessing Farm Household Potential for Non-farm Income Diversification

Fritzsch, Jana - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

European politicians encourage the income diversification of rural households through various measures. Although being aware of farm households’ potential for non-farm income diversification seems important for finely-targeting such policy measures, no attempt has thus far been made to...

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Non-farm income diversification of rural farm households in Central and Southeastern Europe: an application of fuzzy set theory

Fritzsch, Jana; Buchenrieder, Gertrud; Mollers, Judith - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

A fuzzy logic model for quantifying farm households’ potential for non-farm income diversification is developed and applied to 1,077 farm households in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovenia. About three quarters of households have a diversification potential, but not all households...

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Semi-subsistence farm households and the non-farm rural economy - Perspectives and challenges

Buchenrieder, Gertrud; Fritzsch, Jana; Wegener, Stefan; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

Semi-subsistence farm households (SFHs) have persevered in Central and Southeastern Europe. An outlook on future perspectives of SFHs asks for reliable information on the phenomenon of SFHs and the impact of policy measures on their development options: (1) intensifying farming, (2) diversifying...

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Access to Credit, Factor Allocation and Farm Productivity: Evidence From the CEE Transition Economies

Ciaian, Pavel; Falkowski, Jan; Kancs, d'Artis - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

This paper analyses how farm access to credit affects farm input allocation and farm efficiency in the CEE countries. Drawing on a unique farm level panel data with 37,409 observations and employing a matching estimator we are able to control for the key source of endogeneity – unoberserved...

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Competitiveness in the Food Industry: a CGE Modelling Approach to assess Foreign Direct Investment in Transition Countries

Banse, Martin; Gay, Stephan Hubertus; McDonald, Scott; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

For transition countries, the food industry sector is a key industry in terms of output and employment shares. As a competitive sector that receives substantial foreign direct investments (FDI), it plays an important role as an element in the process of integration in the European and world...

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Impact of export control policy measures in an attempt to tame Argentina's inflation

Rossi, Paula; Kagatsume, Masaru; Prosperi, Maurizio - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

staple food in Argentina: beef. The government reacted by launching an aggressive plan to fight inflation which included …

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Modelling Spot Water Markets Under Uncertain Water Supply

Calatrava-Leyva, Javier; Garrido, Alberto - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2002

as mitigate the adverse economic effects of droughts. This paper looks at the risks and uncertainty dimensions of water …, the role that uncertainty plays in market participants' decisions and its impact on gains from trade. Two models have been … endogeneity is solved by an iterative process, which characterise price uncertainty from the results obtained from the spatial …

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Uncertainty in Individuals' Preferences for Non-commodity Outputs Provided by Rural Development Programs (RDPs): A Contingent Valuation Approach

Dominguez-Torreiro, Marcos; Solino, Mario - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

individuals’ perceptions of and willingness to pay (WTP) for the implementation of a RDP in Cantabria, Spain. Uncertainty in … is made between the open-ended (OE) and the multiple bounded uncertainty (MBU) elicitation formats. According to our …

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