This paper employs a latent variable approach to isolate the effects of changing tastes on the share of total meat expenditure on different categories of meat products in Greece during the period 1965–1995. We find that changes in the relative expenditure on different categories of meat cannot...

We comment on a recent important article by Akbay et al. and discuss some methodological and estimation issues arising from their paper. We then suggest alternative procedures that may help improve their estimates and thereby enhance their usefulness as a basis for food policy and marketing...

The complex and often conflicting policy objectives that CAP, either implicitly or explicitly, is designed to achieve as well as, due to trade-offs and compromises between stakeholders and between different stakeholders that inevitably arise when hard decisions must be made, make the adopted...

Greece is self-sufficient in crop production but it relies heavily on meat and dairy imports. The Greek balance of trade for agricultural products was steadily deficit due to the heavy imports of meat and dairy products. In this study the restricted source differentiated AIDS was employed in...