Seeking new ways in agriculture and agricultural policy in Germany and France. The concept of integrated rural development also represents a suitable approach for solving rural development problems in Europe. There are several reasons supporting the concept of rural development: changing...

Mittels eines überwiegend internetbasierten Discrete-Choice-Experimentes und einer nachfolgenden multinomialen Probitschätzung werden empirisch Determinanten identifiziert, die die Entscheidung für den potenziellen Anbau von gentechnisch verändertem (GV-) Raps durch 217 rapsanbauende...

New Empirical Evidence on Price Setting and Consumer Behaviour in the Retailing Sector. There are two objectives of this article: (i) It is discussed theoretically how the dynamics of pricing decisions of multiproduct retailers can be explained. (ii) It is analyzed empirically by use of scanner...

With commodity prices continuing to decrease and with policy constraint that farmers cannot easily increase their incomes by increasing volumes of production, they must find alternative ways to maintain their standard of living. This can be achieved by either niche marketing of agricultural...

(Re-)Distribution of responsibilities in agricultural policy in Germany: In agricultural policy in Germany institutional and functional spheres of responsibility are mixed. The constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany warrants a strong position to the federal states in relation to the...

Amendment of the Premiums for the Agrarian Accident InsuranceMany German farmers do no longer accept the annual premiums for the state accident insurance, which sometimes reach a considerable degree. The farmers are of the opinion that the specific accident risk of each farm has to be taken into...

This paper analyzes the business performance of the German dairy industry based on the annual account data of the years from 2005 to 2007. The empirical work examines key performance indicators for the financial security and for the potential yield of the dairy industry. The interfirm comparison...

Since the mid-nineties, agricultural economists discuss the suitability of "weather derivatives" as hedging instruments for volumetric risks in agriculture. Contrary to traditional insurance contracts, the payoffs of such derivatives are linked to weather indices (e.g. accumulated rainfall or...