Browsing Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften (inkl. GAUSS) by Advisor & Referee "Yu, Xiaohua Prof. Dr."
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Product Differentiation and Consumer Preferences for Sustainable Food
(2014-08-27)There is growing evidence that the current agri-food system is not sustainable, because major environmental and ethical issues challenge the global development. Against this complex background it becomes clear, that ... -
Economic Development, Nutrition Transition and Gender Discrimination in China
(2014-02-10)Since the implementation of the “reform and opening up” policy in 1978, China has been experiencing remarkable economic growth. This economic success can be partly attributed to technological progress, even though no ... -
Climate Change, Risk and Productivity: Analyses of Chinese Agriculture
(2013-09-17)This thesis analyzes challenges to agricultural production in China, which could impair the country’s ability to maintain or to increase its output of important food commodities. By means of three empirical studies, issues ... -
Estimation of the Long-Run Food Price Equilibrium in Germany, the U.S. and Europe
(2013-07-31)In this thesis, so far insufficiently considered characteristics of long-run equilibriums in food markets are investigated. For this purpose, multivariate time series methodologies, which were developed for the estimation ... -
Effects of Country-of-Origin and Benchmarking on Credibility of Food Quality Assurance Schemes
(2013-04-02)In response to the proliferation of global private food standards, some developing countries are establishing their own national food standards as a way to position themselves in major food markets. However, country-of-origin ... -
Household Energy Consumption and Dependency on Common Pool Forest Resources: The Case of Kakamega Forest, Western Kenya.
(2013-03-19)Biomass is still the dominant source of energy used by most rural households in the developing world. Current use patterns have been linked to adverse effects on forest resources. Alternative fuels such as kerosene could ... -
Empirical studies on lending volume decisions, the number of lending approvals, and lending rates attitudes: Estimation based on household data from rural Shandong, China
(2013-03-15)This study uses household level data collected in Shandong Province of China to study rural formal financial institutions’ lending volume decisions, the number of lending approvals, and respondents’ attitude towards interest ... -
Economic Theory and Econometric Methods in Spatial Market Integration Analysis
(2012-08-01)The study of Spatial Market Integration (SMI) has been of great concern for agricultural economists, with the Takayama and Judge Price and Allocation Model (TJM), in which prices are bounded by the Spatial Equilibrium ...