Formal credit plays an important role for the development of the agriculture sector in developing countries because many farmers are characterized as liquidity constrained. Access to credit can increase farmers' purchasing power for inputs and agricultural technology, thus raising the overall...

Eine Reihe von Lebensmittelskandalen der jüngeren Vergangenheit hat gezeigt, dass fehlgeleitete ökonomische Anreize eine bedeutsame Risikoquelle sind. Der Normappell des Gesetzes reicht augenscheinlich nicht bei allen Lebensmittelunternehmern aus, um sie von gewinnträchtigen Verstößen gegen...

Wetterindexversicherungen stellen innovative Risikomanagementinstrumente dar und weisen gegenüber herkömmlichen Versicherungen den Vorteil geringer Administrations- und Regulierungskosten auf. Darüber hinaus entstehen keine Moral-Hazard- und Adverse-Selection-Probleme. In der Landwirtschaft...

Vor dem Hintergrund des Klimawandels und der Endlichkeit fossiler Ressourcen steht eine Vielzahl regionaler Landnutzungsentscheidungen an. Hierbei sind unterschiedlichste landwirtschaftliche und forstwirtschaftliche Konfliktfelder zwischen Produzenten, Stakeholdern und der regionalen Governance...

The discount rate is of great importance for all decisions in an intertemporal context, such as the decision of how much a society invests in environmental preservation, or the financial decisionmaking on the individual level. This study experimentally investigates the time preferences of...

The disposition effect is a well-established phenomenon which describes the behavior of investors that are more willing to sell capital gains than capital losses. In this article we present experimental evidence on a situation where an investor decides on behalf of another person. In our...

It is alleged that larger farms are less willing to adopt animal welfare-friendly production systems, though empirically-based knowledge on this issue is still lacking. Therefore, the aim of this study is to analyze pig and sow producer preferences for the adoption of animal welfare standards...

The use of glyphosate plays an important role in farmers' strategic decisions for reducing weed pressure and yield losses. In this paper, the use of glyphosate is analysed as part of a complete agronomic strategy in which the farmer has to choose between the use of a combination of mechanical...