World commodity prices increased in 1996 on aggregate by 7 percent. However, taking yearly averages, this was the result of heterogeneous developments: increasing oil prices, which have a dominant weight, and falling prices for industrial raw materials and food and beverages. Forecasts for 1997...

Apart from demand and supply conditions, todays EC trade in agricultural products is determined not only by classical trade policy instruments, e.g. customs or quotas, but in addition by numerous internal instruments influencing consumption, production and storage. The protective character...

Analysing the development of food and agricultural raw material markets during the past twenty years, two phases could be distinguished. Following a long period with production surpluses, comprehensive stocks and stable prices, in the seventies the situation changed dramatically. During 1973 and...

When the CAP was established back in 1958, it was a powerful means for the economic or - even more ambitious - for the political integration of the European Community. In more recent years, however, it has been identified by a growing number of people as both the origin of mismanaged...

Die EG-Agrarreform von 1992 setzt den schon durch die Reform von 1988 eingeschlagenen Weg in eine bürokratisch reglementierte Agrarwirtschaft fort. Den Landwirten wird die Freiheit zu unternehmerischer Entscheidung mit großzügigen, flächen- und tierbezogenen Transfers abgekauft, die als...

Der Bundesminister ßr Wirtschaft hat mit Schreiben vom 19. Oktober 1990 dem Deutschen Institut ßr Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin, und dem Institut ßr Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, einen Forschungsauftrag mit dem Titel "Gesamtwirtschaftliche und unternehmerische Anpassungsprozesse in Ostdeutschland "...