A model based on social accounting techniques is used to quantify the relative importance of traditional and nontraditional elements of the economic base of rural areas. Empirical analysis is focused on the Western Isles, Scotland. The results highlight the importance of central government...

Recent research has highlighted the importance of trust in building and maintaining business relationships. This research addresses these findings and utilizes Macneil’s norm theory to develop a model illu strating the mediating role of trust in buyer-seller relationships and compare it to the...

A primary concern in rural development policy is the impact of government expenditures on economic growth, income and employment. The Socio-Economic Benefit Assessment System (SEBAS) model developed through academic/government collaboration in the United States is an example of a practical tool...

Despite the emphasis given in EU agricultural policy to the local economic benefits of a maintaining a strong agricultural sector, relatively little research has focussed on the contribution farm households make to their localities. The lack of understanding is particularly acute given ongoing...

The present study aims at modelling the impact of different CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) scenarios on 6 case study regional economies. The starting point is the construction of a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) obtained through a combination of mechanical downscaling of higher level...

Parameter uncertainty has fuelled criticisms on the robustness of CGE results and has led to the development of alternative approaches to sensitivity analyses. Researchers have used Monte Carlo (MC) for systematic sensitivity analysis (SSA) because of its flexibility. However, MC may provide...

This paper explores the extent to which a new on-shore winds sector, gives rise to rural economic benefits taking into account that, a priori, the eventual size of the sector (the shock to the model) is uncertain and that the underlying probability distribution of the shock may not be symmetric....

Agricultural policy and farm lobby groups often stress the role of farm production in sustaining local economies. This paper considers the spatial pattern of the upstream and downstream agricultural transactions of farms in North East Scotland and, in particular, the extent to which they take...

One of the key features of the CAP 2014 reforms is the requirement for Member States currently distributing direct payments to farmers on the basis of historic support levels to switch an area-based payment scheme. This paper explores effects of this shift for both the farm sector and the wider...

An inter-regional SAM-based model is used to analyse the nature of interdependencies within and between rural and urban areas in Grampian, North East Scotland. Through multiplier decomposition, the relative importance of inter- and intra-regional linkages is investigated. The results suggest...