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...

The socio-economic situation of small banana growers generated a lot of issues among researchers. However, the situation drastically changed because land distribution became possible through the Collective Certificate of Land Ownership (CLOA) issuance under the CARP. CLOA is issued to...

The promotion of oil palm production as an agribusiness development policy is a major issue in response to the increasing demand of palm oil in the Philippines. This paper focused on oil palm production cooperatives composed of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) as members who were granted the...

Ökonomische Experimente sind eine bislang selten verwendete Forschungsmethode im Bereich der agrarpolitischen Analyse. Dieser Beitrag erörtert die Grundlagen von Experimenten, vergleicht sie mit anderen Forschungsmethoden und zeigt ein mögliches Anwendungsgebiet für die Agrarpolitikanalyse...

Dieser Beitrag setzt sich zum Ziel, für die zwei Märkte Milch- und Weinwirtschaft, auf denen Genossenschaften eine starke Marktposition eingenommen haben, eine Analyse der Unternehmenssituation in Bezug auf wichtige Bilanzkennzahlen durchzuführen und damit den Markterfolg im Vergleich zu...

Dem Beitritt zur Europäischen Union (EU), den zahlreiche Länder anstreben, wird mit einiger Verzögerung die Einführung des Euro folgen. Schon jetzt stellen sich daher zwei grundsätzliche Fragen: Erstens, ist die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) auch dann mit den derzeit gegebenen...

This paper uses data on currency options prices for the exchange rates of the three largest new EU member states Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary vis-à-vis the euro and the US dollar to estimate the risk-neutral density (RND) functions and the density interval bands. Analysing the RNDs, we...

The paper analyses the potential for lending booms in the three biggest new EU Member States (the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland) during the process of euro adoption. Experiences of some old members (Greece, Ireland and Portugal) and the econometric evidence speak in favour of strong loan...

In this paper I address the question to what extent wages are affected by product market uncertainty. Implicit contract models imply that it is Pareto optimal for risk neutral firms to provide insurance to risk averse workers against shocks. Using matched employer-employee dataset, I adopted the...

We investigate the impact of fiscal variables on bond yield spreads relative to US Treasury bonds in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Turkey from May 1998 to December 2007. To account for the importance of market expectations we use projected values for fiscal and macroeconomic...