At present, in Romania there is no clear definition of the concept of family farm, and at the level of the European Union, the definition of family farms differs significantly depending on the characteristics of each country. At the same time, there is no classification of these types of farms,...

The Philippines' Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA) identifies one of the modernization objectives as "to encourage horizontal and vertical integration, consolidation, and expansion of agriculture and fisheries activities, group functions and other services through the...

The high number of subsistence and semi-subsistence farms is due to their small economic size, mainly due to the low efficiency of the crops grown in relation to the small area they cultivate. Using the Simplex method, the areas that family farms would need to farm in order to ensure a normal...

Industrial organization is mainly concerned with the behavior of large firms. Experimental industrial organization therefore faces a problem: How can firms be brought into the laboratory? The main approach relies on framing: Call individuals firms! This experimental approach is not in line with...

In this thesis the model of a payment card network is constructed to explore the impact of downstream market characteristics (i.e., the market where merchants and consumers interact) on the merchant and the interchange fee, thereby extending the literature’s observations of payment systems. To...

The present paper reconsiders the inside innovators' licensing problem under incomplete information. Employing an optimal mechanism design approach, we show that, contrary to what is claimed in the literature, the optimal mechanism may prescribe fixed fees, royalty rates lower than the cost...

The article deals with the problem of West European and Nordic countries small economies as well as ultra-small autonomous territories of Alands and Faeroes island's development. The latter are considered as the «competitive sub-peripheries» areas due to the special industrial organization...