The purpose of this work is to explore the dynamics of migration processes and to analyze constant and labour migration dynamics in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) within 1993–2008. It is shown in the paper that from 1993 to 2002 the reason of migration processes dynamics are the...

This paper analyses the effects of the expiration of the volumetric ethanol subsidy and the implementation of the renewable fuels standard (RFS) on the U.S. fuel ethanol industry. Analyses that ignore the dynamic implications of these policies, including their effects on incumbent ethanol...

This article provides a methodology to exactly calibrate land-constrained programming models of agricultural supply against supply elasticities using generalized constant-elasticity-of-substitution, crop-specific production functions. We formally derive the necessary and sufficient conditions...

The use of prior information on supply elasticities to calibrate programming models of agricultural supply has been advocated repeatedly in the recent literature (Heckelei and Britz 2005). Yet, Mérel and Bucaram (2009) have shown that the dual goal of calibrating such models to a reference...

A significant increase in demand for fuel ethanol in California should be expected if all gasoline sold in the state were to be blended with 10% ethanol, as envisaged in the State Alternative Fuels Plan. This paper assesses the potential of California agriculture to supply biofuel feedstock in...

This study examined the effects of China’s grain subsidy program, the largest food self-sufficiency project in the developing countries, on grain-sown areas within a context of liquidity constraints. A large household level panel was used to evaluate how the subsidy affects the cultivation...

This study examined the effects of China’s grain subsidy program, the largest food self-sufficiency project of all developing countries, on grain-sown areas within the context of liquidity constraints. A large household-level panel was used to evaluate how the subsidy program affected the...

This paper deals with the outcome of the first year of Russia’s membership in WTO.

Из крупнейшего в советское время импортера Россия превратилась в нетто-экспортера зерна. Рассматривается потенциал увеличения экспорта зерна за счет...

This paper deals with Russia’s agricultural performance over the last 20 years. The authors provide their view on the situation on selected agricultural and food markets. Russia’s accession to the WTO and the impact on the Russian agrifood business is analyzed in this paper. The authors also...