Z<sc>ingg</sc> E., M<sc>ann</sc> S. and F<sc>erjani</sc> A. How green are communities? Explaining differences between Swiss municipalities in environmental stewardship on farmland, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. While a lot of research has explained on-farm factors for the adoption of environmental stewardship, this paper focuses on...

This article analyses the impact of the planned Swiss package of agricultural policy measures AP2011 and the tariff reductions scheduled as part of the WTO Doha Round, with special emphasis on effects in the dairy and meat sector. The simulations are carried out using an extended partial...

The objective of the paper is to investigate whether Swiss farms specialised in dairy (the prevailing production of the country), which are small in international standards, would have a survival potential if they had to compete more directly with EU farms. More specifically, we investigate...

Economic theory suggests several possible mechanisms through which direct government farm payments might influence the efficiency and structural change in agriculture. This study estimates identify the main determinants of efficiency, particularly, what effect farm payments have had on...

This paper focuses on the evolution of productivity in the agricultural sector of 21 developped countries over the period of 1990-2002. It uses Data Envelopment Analysis, a non-parametric approach that allows decompositions of changes in productivity into variations in efficiency and technical...

Within a multi-sectoral general equilibrium framework, we explicitly model either competitive or Cournot oligopolistic commodities market structures. The model is used to assess the impact of trade liberalization on Tunisia economy. We show that the results are different from those obtained with...

The rapid ascent of commodity prices between late 2005 and 2008 led to renewed debate about what drives the demand and supply for basic food commodities. This paper examines the supply response to the output prices shocks for 22 commodity products in 3 regions of Switzerland by using a dynamic...