In December 2006 the Regulation (EC) No. 1924/2006 on the use of nutrition and health claims (NHCs) on foods was enacted in order to prevent consumer deception and to harmonise law within the EU. Against this background, this paper analyses the potential costs and benefits linked with NHCs and...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the retail prices of premium German white wines sold in the Scandinavian countries. German white wines account for approximately 5-6 per cent of the total sale of wines - both red and white wines - in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. However, the market shares of...

Complete and consistent, i.e. theoretically appropriate demand systems have seldom been developed for Germany. Econometric food demand analyses have concentrated on single products and product groups. Generally, demand functions have been estimated using single equation methods. The purpose of...

Until now empirical analyses have not succeeded in the determination of a general upon agreed bunch of the most important driving forces of structural change in agriculture beyond the level of the national economy. It will be argued that the sometimes contradictory results of different studies...

Die Methodik der Aggregation von Importzöllen kann die Ergebnisse von Liberalisierungsstudien maßgeblich beeinflussen. Gegenstand dieses Beitrages ist ein Vergleich der unterschiedlichen Methoden zur Aggregation von Importzöllen. Zunächst erfolgt hierfür eine theoretische Darstellung der...

This paper presents a Probit model explaining the expansion of part-time farming in the German State of Hesse. Particular emphasis is placed on the personality traits of the agricultural entrepreneur and the labour market. The regression is based on a cross-section data from 74 Hessian farms....

The liberalization of agricultural markets has increased the interest of farmers (as well as those working on policies concerned with their welfare) in agricultural diversification strategies. However, empirical research on diversification in European agricultural markets is very limited. This...

Der vorliegende Beitrag Abschätzung der Auswirkungen alternativer Bündel ökonomischer Anreizinstrumente zur Reduzierung der Flächeninanspruchnahme - Ziele, Maßnahmen, Wirkungen wurde als Gutachten im Auftrag des Büros für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag (TAB) erstellt....

Der vorliegende Beitrag 'Schätzung der Wirkung umweltpolitischer Maßnahmen im Verkehrssektor unter Nutzung der Datenbasis der Gesamtrechnung des Statistischen Bundesamtes' enthält den Endbericht eines Forschungsauftrages für das Umweltbundesamt.