| dc.contributor.advisor | Brümmer, Bernhard Prof. Dr. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Haase, Oliver-Ken | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-08T16:09:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-12-08T16:09:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-12-08 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/21.11130/00-1735-0000-0005-1515-C | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-8360 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | de |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject.ddc | 630 | de |
| dc.title | Essays in Applied Economics | de |
| dc.type | doctoralThesis | de |
| dc.contributor.referee | von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan Prof. Dr. | |
| dc.date.examination | 2020-05-22 | |
| dc.description.abstracteng | The first essay of the thesis analyzes the productive efficiency of dairy farms
located across the rural-urban transition area of the Southern Indian city
of Bangalore. For that purpose a stochastic frontier analysis is conducted
on a primary data set comprising 418 dairy farms. This essay employs an
instrument-free approach to cope with unobserved characteristics that are
correlated with the observable inputs. The results reveal an overuse of high
protein content feed which may have critical implications for animal welfare
and sustained milk production.
The second essay extends the literature on the productivity effects of labor
market institutions by means of a semiparametric production function
approach to 191 European regions (NUTS-2) over the period from 1995 to
2008. Rather than focusing exclusively on one particular institution progress
is made by examining the effects of a whole set of labor market characteristics.
The results indicate that stronger presence of unions, higher firing costs
and more generous unemployment benefit payments tend to have detrimental
marginal productivity effects, while hetergeneous findings on the effect
from higher union coverage depend on the degree of centralization of wage
bargaining processes.
The third essay applies the new translog gravity model by Novy (2013) to
investigate the heterogeneous effects of food standards on agricultural trade
flows. In contrast to existing works, this essay argues that standards affect
trade but even more so for countries that trade smaller volumes. The reasoning
is simple but hopefully intuitive; bigger trading partners find it more
profitable to invest in meeting the costs of importer-specific standards. Consistent
with the predictions of the model, the results from the conventional
CES model support our argument. However, the crucial difference lies in the
capability of the translog model to endogenously explain the standards effect
on trade . | de |
| dc.contributor.coReferee | Yu, Xiaohua Prof. Dr. | |
| dc.subject.eng | Technical efficiency | de |
| dc.subject.eng | Productivity | de |
| dc.subject.eng | Agricultural trade | de |
| dc.identifier.urn | urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-21.11130/00-1735-0000-0005-1515-C-4 | |
| dc.affiliation.institute | Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften | de |
| dc.subject.gokfull | Land- und Forstwirtschaft (PPN621302791) | de |
| dc.identifier.ppn | 1742328210 | |