The 2003 reforms of the Common Agricultural policy of the European Unionintroduced decoupled income transfers as the most prominent policy instrument.However, member states were given substantial discretion over the degree and timingof the reform implementation. As a result, different...

[...]Jeder Handelsbetrieb muss sich gegenüber seinen Mitbewerbern und Abnehmern abgrenzenund positionieren. Dies gilt in besonderer Weise für die Unternehmen desViehhandels, der durch das Nebeneinander von privatem und genossenschaftlichemViehhandel geprägt ist. Die Positionierung von VVO im...

We propose a constructive, multivariate framework for assessing agreement between (generally misspecified) dynamic equilibrium models and data, a framework which enables a complete second-order comparison of the dynamic properties of models and data. We use bootstrap algorithms to evaluate the...