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...