This article reviews ways of representing the effects of decoupling in the EuropeanUnion (EU) on land allocation and production in eight selected simulationmodels (AGLINK, AG-MEMOD, CAPRI, CAPSIM, ESIM, FAPRI, GOALand GTAP). It then compares the simulated effects of decoupling and tracesthem...

This paper considers the effect of Parker and Wine Spectator ratings on Swiss retail prices of thegrand cru classé of Médoc , Graves and St Emilion as well as the most renowned wines ofPomerol in a panel data setting. The application of a two-way fixed effects regression model todata of the...

The global hunger indices of 2008 and 2009 (Grebmer et al. 2008, 2009) point to persistently high levels of hunger and food insecurity and a worsening of the situation due to rising crop prices. At the same time, there is a lack of empirical knowledge on the demand- and supply-side determinants...

In this article we discuss the determinants of international agricultural market prices andpresent the results of a partial equilibrium model of international agricultural trade withinterconnected markets. The results of the model suggest that the long term trend of decliningreal agricultural...

Several empirical analyses of data from fed cattle markets have found anegative correlation between a region's weekly delivery volume of captive supply cattleand contemporaneous price in the local cash market. This negative correlation has beencited as evidence of a causal relationship between...

After controlling a variety of feeder cattle characteristics and market and sale conditions, weestimate the price premiums for preconditioning (vaccinations and minimum 30 days weaning)claims with and without third-party certification (TPC) as $6.15/cwt and $3.40/cwt, respectively,in Iowa feeder...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union has been in a process of reform since the early 1990s. As a result of reforms, agricultural market regulations have become more liberal and direct payments have been introduced which are to a large extent decoupled from production. In...

In der WTO-Agrarhandelsrunde von Doha geht es neben dem Abbau von Exportsubventionen und der Abschaffung von Marktzugangsbeschränkungen auch um die weitere Reduktion von internen Subventionen, die als produktions- und damit handelsverzerrend eingestuft sind. Eine Gruppe von Ländern, darunter...

Politicians and farm lobbyists frequently use the argument that agricultural policy is necessaryto safeguard jobs in agriculture. We explore whether this is true by conducting an econometricex-post evaluation of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the threeEast German...

We extend the existing literature on food taxes targeting obesity. We systematically incorporatethe implicit substitution between added sugars and solid fats into a comprehensive food demandsystem and evaluate the effect of taxes on sugars and fats. The approach conditions how foodand obesity...