This study provides an in-depth model based quantitative analysis of the implications of the dairy policy reform on the milk and dairy market as well as on other agricultural markets in the EU27, EU15, EU12 and the individual MS. The objectives of the study are threefold: 1. to assess the...

Mit nachwachsenden Ressourcen die Abhängigkeit von Öl vermindern - so untertitelt die Bundesregierung ihre Strategie zur Förderung der Bioökonomie in Deutschland (BMBF 2013). Zur Bioökonomie zählen alle Wirtschaftsbereiche, die nachwachsende Rohstoffe erzeugen, verarbeiten und handeln....

Dieser Bericht stellt ausgewählte Ergebnisse der Thünen-Baseline 2013 - 2023 sowie die zugrunde liegenden Annahmen dar. Für die Erstellung der Thünen-Baseline wurden eine Reihe von Modellen im Verbund eingesetzt: das allgemeine Gleichgewichtsmodell MAGNET, das partielle Gleichgewichtsmodell...

Policy, administration and industry need medium-term projections of the expected developments in the agri-food markets for their decision-making processes. The EU Commission presents such projections for the EU as a whole in December of each year. Those projections and their assumptions...

The WTO negotiations of the Doha round are a key issue in the public debate. This paper analysis the effects of different market access option on the basis of general equilibrium model. An extended version of the GTAP model is used to firstly project a base run including the Agenda 2000, the EU...

A great deal of attention is currently being paid to the discussion ofthe reform of global agricultural trade. In this paper, the effects ofthe revised Harbinson paper (March 2003) are analysed with anextensively extended GTAP model. With the help of a base run,projections are implemented in the...

The AGMEMOD Partnership seeks to capture the inherent existingheterogeneity of agricultural systems by linking together individualEU Member State models, an aggregated EU model and severalaccession countries into one single model, while still maintaininganalytical consistency. Although this...

Enlarging the EU presents a tremendous effort with obstacles for old and new member states especially in the agricultural sector. In this paper, impacts of a new accession round were analyzed with the help of the comparative-static general equilibrium model GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project)....

Against the background of increasing concerns regarding the energy supply security as well asenvironmental concern the interest for renewable energy sources has increased in recent years. Thebiofuel sector, backed by public policies, experienced a strong increase in and outside Europe....

The paper presents an extended gravity equation application for the global trade with ethanol.The background and different attempts for a theoretical foundation of the standard approachare discussed. The econometric work takes regional integration schemes into account, as wellas the influence of...