Im Mittelpunkt der vorgestellten Arbeit steht die dynamische Anreizwirkung umweltpolitischer Instrumente. Die voliegende Arbeit erstellt einen differenzierten Vergleich umweltpolitischer Instrumente. Hierzu wird die Anreizwirkung von Steuern, Subventionen, Zertifikaten und einheitlichen...

Land and market imperfections shape the organization of agricultural production and lead to differentproduction regimes within rural farm households in South Africa. This paper presents a theoretical modelto explain the presence of three main households groups (classes) determined on the basis...

The paper analyses the imperfections in output and factor markets in Kosovo that act as abarrier to farm commercialisation. On the one hand, agricultural households may not haveaccess to output market due to an underdeveloped downstream sector. On the other, localproducers might not be preferred...

Under perfect competition and constant returns to scale, firms producing homogeneous products set their prices at their marginal costs which also equal their average costs. However, the departure from these standard assumptions has important implications with respects to the derived theoretical...

Using survey data from the community, producer marketing groups (PMGs) and farmhouseholds in Kenya, this paper investigates the potential of rural institutions (farmerorganizations, their rules and enforcement mechanisms) for remedying pervasive marketimperfections and facilitate access to new...

This paper examines the relationship between structural changes and EU agricultural policies and their implications in the context of the enlarged EU. The paper examines the impact of EU policies on the restructuring and competitiveness of farms in the new member states taking into account...

"Many of what we consider to be valuable natural assets existed for millennia without our ever being aware of their usefulness or value. For example, the capacity of the atmosphere to absorb pollution has only become useful to us in recent decades as the limits of that environmental service have...

We develop a framework to study the effects of policies of uncertain duration onconsumption dynamics under both complete and incomplete markets. We focus on the dynamicimplications of market incompleteness, specifically on the lack of state-contingent bonds. Twopolicies are considered: pure...

This honors thesis will examine current and theoretical "cap and trade" emissions trading schemes in an attempt to make recommendations on how to improve this regulated commodity market. The various control mechanisms available to regulators will be discussed: including allocation methodology,...

This paper develops an R&D based endogenous growth model in which the firm’s free-riding behavior, prompted by an incomplete technological protection at the industry level, can drive economic growth. Unlike existing endogenous growth models, it shows how free-riding behavior and process...