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Enlarging the EU presents a tremendous effort with obstacles for old and new member states especially in the agricultural sector. In this paper, impacts of a new accession round were analyzed with the help of the comparative-static general equilibrium model GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project)....

Against the background of increasing concerns regarding the energy supply security as well asenvironmental concern the interest for renewable energy sources has increased in recent years. Thebiofuel sector, backed by public policies, experienced a strong increase in and outside Europe....

Since 2000 a number of factors impacted agricultural markets drastically. Among these are structuralchanges in global demand and repeated supply constraints that supported the observed positive development ofagricultural prices. Given the increasingly interdependent global markets, the question...

Nicht zuletzt aufgrund der weltweit stark zunehmenden Nachfrage nach landwirtschaftlichen Rohstoffen zur Biokraftstoffherstellung wird mit einem starken Anstieg der Getreide- und Ölsaatenpreise gerechnet. In diesem Beitrag wurden die Auswirkungen steigender Getreidepreise auf die boomende...

A central problem in estimating per unit costs of production originates from the fact that most farms producemultiple outputs and standard farm-accounting data are only available at the whole-farm level. The seeminglyunrelated regression (SUR) approach is used to estimate per unit production...

The impact of sectoral or economy wide policy scenarios is often of strong political and public interest, yet it is a scientific challenge. When analyzing different levels of aggregation, the use ofsingle models may not be sufficient. In this paper we establish an interface between the European...

The paper presents an extended gravity equation application for the global trade with ethanol.The background and different attempts for a theoretical foundation of the standard approachare discussed. The econometric work takes regional integration schemes into account, as wellas the influence of...