Browsing Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Informatik by Advisor "von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan Prof. Dr."
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Die Einkommenssituation der Landwirtschaft – Empirische Untersuchungen des wirtschaftlichen Wohlergehens und der ökonomischen Resilienz
(2022-07-26)The income situation of agriculture is an ongoing theme in the agricultural policy debate. The main points of discussion are whether, first, the German/European agricultural statistics are meaningful for an assessment of ... -
Price Discovery Measures in Agricultural Economics
(2022-06-14)The present dissertationis devoted to the issue of price discovery in agricultural markets. Price discovery is considered one of the central functions of financial markets and is usually analyzed empirically for highly ... -
Estimating and Comparing Market Efficiency Frontiers
(2021-09-21)Previous studies employing error correction models (ECMs) that include threshold effects in long-run equilibrium relationships (threshold cointegration) as well as in error correction (threshold autoregression; threshold ... -
The role of institutions on modern agricultural value chains
(2020-08-27)There has been an increase in the integration of global agricultural value chains in recent decades. This trend has created opportunities for smallholder farmers and agrifood industries in developing countries through ... -
Price Transmission and Market Integration in Swiss Agricultural and Food Markets
(2020-07-01)This PhD thesis comprises three papers on price transmission and market integration in Swiss agricultural and food markets. In the paper "Protecting the Swiss milk market from foreign price shocks: Public border protection ... -
Price cycles and synchronization in South America
(2020-02-21)Prices of agricultural products often vary in relatively stable recurring patterns around their long-run trends. These variations translate into fluctuations of selling prices as well as farm revenues. We provide an overview ... -
Supporting biodiversity in European vineyards: Possibilities for winegrowers and economic implications
(2019-10-01)Viniculture is economically important for the agricultural sector in the European Union (EU). Beyond the economic importance, viniculture also affects the environment. Based on its nature as a permanent crop and its ... -
Three Essays on Evaluating the Impact of Natural Resource Management Programs
(2018-02-02)This dissertation is composed of three papers describing the nexus between natural resource management programs, farmer well-being, and productivity. Our study sheds light on the effectiveness of actions that have been or ... -
Schätzverfahren für individuelles Preissetzungsverhalten im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel
(2018-01-12)The issue of transferring a price along the value-added chain of agricultural products, the so-called vertical price transmission (VPT), has once again become a matter of concern. The retail sector is suspected to operate ... -
Akteure der Landwirtschaft in Leader-Aktionsgruppen: Untersuchungen zur Teilnahmemotivation vor dem Hintergrund sozio-kultureller Fragmentierung
(2017-03-10)People affiliated with agriculture in rural areas often provide voluntary services. One possible form, apart from the original production focus, is assisting in the Leader regional development Local Action Groups (LAGs). ... -
Competitiveness and Efficiency of Rice Production in Malaysia
(2017-02-24)Rice is one of the most essential staple foods for a large part of the world’s human population and has a large influence on human nutrition, the livelihood and food security of several billion people living across the ... -
Small-scale raspberry producers’ risk and ambiguity preferences, and technology adoption: empirical evidence from rural Maule, Chile
(2017-02-22)Most researchers who analyze producers’ preferences under uncertainty report that producers are averse towards risk and ambiguity scenarios. This aversion has an influence on producers’ decision-making processes; hence the ... -
Combining Industrial Organization and Econometric Methods in Price Transmission Analysis
(2017-02-13)The degree of competition and level of price transmission in food markets have important effects on the welfare level of consumers and producers. Thus, substantial attention has been paid to the analysis of price transmission ... -
The Influence of Scale on the Measurement of the Vertical Price Transmission
(2016-09-19)Measuring vertical price transmission (VPT) has become a widespread means to evaluate the performance of food value chain. To do so, agricultural economists employ time series methods on spatially aggregated data of prices ... -
Competitiveness of pastoral livestock production and sea buckthorn farming in Mongolia: Application of Policy Analysis Matrix
(2016-07-28)This dissertation deals with two issues related to the competitiveness of the Mongolian agricultural sector: pastoral livestock production and sea buckthorn farming. The pastoral livestock sector plays a vital role for ... -
Agricultural Policy Support, Production Incentives and Market Distortions in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2016-07-18)Most countries in the world adopt policies in support of their agricultural sectors. In doing so, governments seek to influence farmers’ behaviour through various channels. While these policies and their incidence have ...