This article analyses the entry process of Mediterranean export firms in the American markets for packaged olive oil between the 1880s and the 1930s. It explores whether those entry barriers traditionally identified by the literature emerged and to what extent they influenced such an entry...

Agri-food products are more and more considered and treated as valuable local assets. The valorisation of such local assets is an issue of great importance, especially in disadvantaged areas. In this paper, the case of the olive oil of Lesvos Island in Greece is presented. We seek to analyse the...

The efficiency in production is often analysed as technical efficiency using the production frontier function. Efficiency scores are usually based on distance computations to the frontier in an m+s-dimensional space, where m inputs produce s outputs. In addition, efficiency improvements consider...

Energy and exergy utilization and carbon dioxide emission during production of soybean, sunflower, and olive oils are assessed. In all cases, agriculture is the most energy and exergy intensive process and emits most of the carbon dioxide, and diesel is the dominant energy and exergy source. The...

In this study the energy and economic flows and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of olive oil production in Iran were investigated in terms of a life cycle assessment with considering four main stages of agricultural olive production, olive transportation, olive oil extraction and its oil...

Aim of this paper is to test weather or not the Network Analysis (NA) could possibly help to grasp Country level competitiveness in the International Trade Network (ITN) of a specific commodity. We focus over the positions that each Country occupies within the net of international trade...

El mercado alemán tiene un buen potencial para los exportadores de aceite de oliva, dadas sus características socioeconómicas y el bajo nivel de consumo. El trabajo muestra la investigación realizada sobre la actitud de los consumidores alemanes hacia el aceite de oliva desde un punto de...

El reciente lanzamiento del proyecto de creación de un mercado de futuros sobre el aceite de oliva en España lleva a plantearse si dicha mercancía cumple con los requisitos básicos para que pueda ser considerada activo subyacente de un contrato derivado. En concreto, es imprescindible que se...

The extra-virgin olive oil, in the rural economy of our country, is taking an increasingly important role. The increasing price volatility due to the opening of markets and the competitive relationship with other producing countries, the increase in demand for quality products, along with...

The reasons for choosing and buying an extra virgin olive oil come from the identification of attributes differentials versus the competition, makers of the value perceived by the consumer of that product, ie a high benefit / cost ratio that leads to that specific product be regained in the...