The spatial distribution of production is a defining characteristic of agriculture, and the location choice in geographic space and the spatial pricing policies adopted by agricultural processing/packing firms are key determinants of the competitiveness and efficiency of agricultural product...

Agricultural economists have a long history of emphasizing and analyzing the spatial dimension of agricultural and food markets. Despite a rich body of literature and important contributions to agricultural and spatial economics, one aspect is frequently disregarded: the oligopsonistic nature of...

Recent empirical evidence raises doubt about the ability of financial market participants to generate information efficient valuations for capital market instruments whose cash flows are related to residual claims and dependent on real estate income. We contribute to this literature with the...

This paper analyses the highly under-researched German residential real estate market. Quality- and spatial-adjusted price and liquidity indices are calculated separately for the investment and rental market on a regional basis. Applying the “Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM)” clustering...

In this paper, the liquidity (inverse of time on market) of rental dwellings and its determinants for different liquidity quantiles are examined for the seven largest German cities. The determinants are estimated using censored quantile regressions in order to investigate the impact on very...

Banks in Disadvantaged Areas Based on the presumption that the empirical banking literature devotes too little attention to institutions with special features, this paper examines banks that are affected by low regional development. Data on the full population of Austrian banks is applied to...

The massive increase of real estate prices in some regions of Germany is a direct consequence of the ongoing financial and debt crisis. Low interest rates and high inflation expectations increase the demand for real estate. In addition to a potential price bubble risk, social problems arouse...

In this contribution, we discuss a facility location model to maximize firms' patronage, while demand is determined by a multinomial logit model (MNL). We account for customer segmentation based on customer characteristics. Hence, we are able to reduce the bias to the objective, which is due to...

Der kontinuierliche Rückgang landwirtschaftlicher Nutzfläche verbunden mit der Tendenz zu immer größeren landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben hat die Konkurrenz um den knappen Produktionsfaktor Boden in Deutschland erhöht. Von 2000 bis 2013 sind die Kaufpreise landwirtschaftlicher Nutzflächen...

Nach Angaben der Deutschen Bundesbank sind die Immobilienpreise in den Jahren 2011 und 2012 jeweils um über 5% gestiegen. Nicht zuletzt aufgrund der dramatischen gesamtwirtschaftlichen Folgen der Immobilienpreisblasen in den USA und in Spanien stellt sich die Frage, ob auch in Deutschland eine...