The mountain areas of Austria and Switzerland are important locations for dairy farming. Owing to natural conditions, the milk in these areas is produced at a considerably higher cost. Nevertheless, structural change in the mountain areas of both countries proceeded at a lower pace than in the...

Farmers in most OECD countries are engaged in different activities which go beyond agriculture. When assessing farm performance, it is appropriate to model these heterogeneous farm outputs separately. In this study, we use the distance function approach, which allows the consideration of...

What Potentials Does the Swiss Direct Payment Regime Offer for the CAPThe paper has the goal to check whether elements of the Swiss direct payment regime could serve as a model for the EU. It does so by checking the direct payment regime's accordance with the concept of an efficient and...

Ziel des Beitrags ist die Erstellung und empirische Verifikation eines Modells zum Einstieg in die Landwirtschaft, das gleichermaßen psychologische und ökonomische Faktoren berücksichtigt. Dabei wird begründet, weswegen typischerweise zunächst identitätsbezogene (z.B. Präferenz für...