World markets for agricultural commodities are faced with increasing price fluctuations. When measuring these fluctuations, most researchers have focused on the construction of instabilty indicators not directly related to economic theory. In this article, a concept for measuring price...

Die Verteilungswirkungen der Europäischen Agrarpolitik (GAP) sind in den letzten Jahren verstärkt in den Fokus des wissenschaftlichen und politischen Interesses getreten, insbesondere seitdem soziale und wirtschaftliche Kohäsion zu einem zentralen Ziel der europäischen Politik erklärt...

Origin matters. This has been shown by numerous studies using either discrete choice or hedonic approaches to derive implicit prices for origin as a product attribute. In most of the hedonic studies, intercept dummies were introduced for specific regional origins and statistically significant...

European consumers and, in particular, German consumers are known to be very critical towards the introduction of genetically modified (GM) foods. It is analyzed here whether German consumers do reject second-generation GMO foods, too. Whereas first-generation GM crops induced producer-related...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU) is characterized by a wide array of individual policy measures, which differ by the category of instruments, across commodities and over time. Consequently, the net impact of the policy mix on price incentives for producers and...

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU) is characterized by a wide array of individual policy measures, which differ by the category of instruments, across commodities and over time. Consequently, the net impact of the policy mix on price incentives for producers and...