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Price distortions on the Hungarian raw milk market

Voneki, Eva; Hockmann, Heinrich - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

The paper attempts to identify the impact of market power in the Hungarian milk chain. Since the conventional conjectural variation approach provides suspicious results the incentives to collude are discussed in an alternative framework. It is argued that the high degree of market transparency,...

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Measuring flexibility of multi-output firms: a primal and a dual measure

Renner, Swetlana; Hockmann, Heinrich; Glauben, Thomas - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

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RISK, TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY AND MARKET TRANSACTION COSTS IN DIFFERENT ORGANISATIONAL FORMS: EVIDENCE FROM THE OBLAST TATARSTAN

Hockmann, Heinrich; Gataulina, Ekaterina; Hahlbrock, … - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2011

The paper investigates the significance of external and internal transaction costs and risk in agriculture in the Tatarstan Republic. The analysis is conducted for independent farms and farms which are members of agroholdings. The result indicates that external transaction costs are more marked...

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Factors Driving Quality Standard Compliance in the Polish Dairy Sector

Pieniadz, Agata; Hockmann, Heinrich - In: Atlantic Economic Journal 36 (2008) 1, pp. 41-52

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How Effective is the Invisible Hand? Agricultural and Food Markets in Central and Eastern Europe

Hockmann, Heinrich; Brosig, Stephan; Popp, Jozsef; … - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2005

outcome. HOBBS describes factors that impede investment and growth by drawing on transaction cost economics. Situations … investment decisions. This offers possibilities for opportunistic behaviour, i.e., when an agent behaves in a way that allows him … only in the particular market where the shock occurs but also in other, related markets, i.e., in different locations or at …

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Agriculture in the Face of Changing Markets, Institutions and Policies: Challenges and Strategies

Balmann, Alfons; Curtiss, Jarmila; Dautzenberg, Kirsti; … - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2006

Since the late 1980s, agriculture in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) has been under considerable adjustment pressure due to changing political, economic and institutional environments. These changes have been linked to the transition process, as well as the ongoing integration...

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Explaining Quality Differences at the Procurement Stage in the Polish Milk Sector

Pieniadz, Agata; Hockmann, Heinrich - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

The challenge of implementing EU quality and safety standards for food production and trading is one of the driving forces behind the restructuring of the agrofood chains in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). The progress made in the compliance process not only varies amongst sectors...

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Incentive Compatible Pricing and Quality Adoption: The Case of the Polish Dairy Sector

Pieniadz, Agata; Hockmann, Heinrich - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

We construct a model to identify determinants of the diffusion rate of standards in a food chain. We argue that adoption decisions in the food chain are determined by farmers and processors economic considerations. Factors such as pricing behavior, compliance costs and market structure, all of...

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MILK AND MILK PROCESSING INDUSTRY IN LITHUANIA: AN ANALYSIS OF HORIZONZAL AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION

Kedaitiene, Angele; Hockmann, Heinrich - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2002

Despite significant progress in recent years, horizontal and vertical integration of the Lithuanian milk sector is not very much advanced. The primary sector is characterised by small-scale farming, the fragmentation of farmland and a low number of livestock per farms. These features cause...

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Agricultural economics and transition: What was expected, what we observed, the lessons learned Proceedings (Volume I / II)

Csaki, Csaba; Forgacs, Csaba; Koester, Ulrich; Liefert, … - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2008

Over fifteen years have elapsed since the transition from the centrally planned economic system started in the early 1990âs. During this time agricultural and rural areas of Central and Eastern Europe have undergone profound structural changes with wide variations in the degree of...

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