Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob Kompensationszahlungen an die Verlierer der Transformation zu einer Verminderung des Konfliktes zwischen ihnen und den Gewinnern führen können. Eine Lösung des Konfliktes ist essentiell für die Weiterführung des Reformprozesses in den...

In their Europe Agreements with the EU, the Central and Eastern European countries stated their intention of joining the Union. To ease the process of accession these countries must adjust their economies already prior to becoming an EU-member. Agriculture requires special attention, because it...

Social capital is defined as the shared knowledge, trust, and culture, embodied in the structural forms of networks and other stable inter-agent relationships. Social capital has been shown to be more difficult to build than economic capital, and to have greater beneficial effects for community...

Die Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) ist eine relativ neue Methodik zur Messung der technischen Effizienz. Definiert man technische Effizienz einer Organisationseinheit (Decision Making Unit - DMU) als Verhältnis der produzierten Güter und Dienstleistungen (Outputs) zu den eingesetzten...

Empirical analysis of rural credit market failure has been of key scientific and political interest in recent years. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of various methods for measuring credit rationing of farms employed in the literature. Furthermore, based on a common analytical...

This paper argues that mainstream economics does not follow the positivist research tradition it (often implicitly) claims to follow and expresses some serious doubt that econometrics in particular can make economics a hard science. Mathematical rigour and sophisticated statisti-cal techniques...