The local food movement is rapidly evolving in Hungary. Three market types can be identified: traditional, farmers’ and organic markets. Results show that farmer- and farmspecific characteristics as well as attitudes greatly and variously influence the decision of small-scale farmers on...

Technical efficiency in agriculture of 10 new EU member states is analysed by Data Envelopment Analysis and econometric panel data analysis. Technical efficiency in agriculture is significantly positively associated with agricultural factor endowments, average farm size, farm specialisation,...

A tanulmány szerzője egy új, nem paraméteres eljárás (OCRA) alkalmazási lehetőségeit mutatja be. A húsipar tartósnak tűnő hatékonysági és versenyképességi problémái különösen indokolttá teszik, hogy új eljárás segítségével a működési versenyképesség fogalmát...

A tanulmány Magyarország tejvertikumának piaci viselkedését elemzi 1995 és 2003 között. Egyrészt azt vizsgálja, hogy a tejvertikumon belül a piaci hatásoknak megfelelően alakultak-e az egyes vertikumszakaszok árai, másrészt hogy a vertikum mely szereplői vannak a legnagyobb...

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This paper investigates determinants of agricultural sector efficiency in ten new member states (NMS-10) of the European Union (EU) from Central and Eastern European countries by the non-parametric method Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the panel data analysis. The agricultural sector...

The coordination plays central role in the economics. The conventional economic theory looks at the market and enterprise (or hierarchy) as two different, separated manner of coordination of economic goods and services. However the modern organization theory, price theory and institutional...

In the European Union and in Hungary, the food and beverage industry is the leading manufacturing one. By contrast, food industry is seen less innovative compared to other branches of the economy, especially in the European Union. The level of the R&D spending is very low in the Hungarian food...