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Monetary Impacts and Overshooting of Agricultural Prices in a Transition Economy: The Case of Slovenia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bakucs,   Lajos Zoltan; Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre.
The paper focus on the time adjustment paths of the exchange rate and agricultural producer and industrial prices in response to unanticipated monetary shocks following model developed by Saghaian et al. (2002). Results indicate that agricultural prices adjust faster than industrial prices to innovations in the money supply, affecting relative prices in the short run, but strict long-run money neutrality does not hold. The impulse response analysis shows that an exogenous shock to the money supply has a significant and volatile effect on the three price variables. The extent of overshooting in agricultural prices is twice as large as for exchange rates or industrial prices. This indicates that in the case of monetary shocks the sectors associated with...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultural prices; Exchange rates; Monetary shocks; Overshooting; Transition economy; Agricultural Finance; International Relations/Trade.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9422

Impact of Off-farm Income on Farm Efficiency in Slovenia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre.
Impact of Off-farm Income on Farm Efficiency in Slovenia
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Off-farm income; Stochastic frontier analysis; Panel regression; Quantile regression; Slovenia; Agricultural Finance; Farm Management.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114258

EXCHANGE RATES AND THE MEASUREMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PRICE DISTORTIONS IN CEECs AND OF CEEC-EU ACCESSION COSTS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Munch,   Wolfgang; Swinnen,   Johan F.M.
Exchange rates were heavily distorted under the central planning system in Central and Eastern Europe and are still adjusting in the transition process.  The use of nominal exchange rates introduces a bias for international price comparisons and in calculations based on them. We present various exchange rates and discuss their relevance and usefulness for CEEC economic transition studies. We show that calculations of agricultural price distortions, protection rates and budgetary costs of EU-CEEC accession are sensitive to the exchange rate assumptions.  More specifically, our simulations of EU-CEEC integration effects show that net exports are substantially smaller and budgetary costs less under the assumption of continued real appreciation of the CEC-4...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; International Relations/Trade.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31863

Determinants of competition in agro-food trade between Central European Countries and the European Union
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre.
This paper investigates determinants of competition in agro-food trade between five transition Central European Countries (CEC-5) (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia) and the European Union (EU-15) countries during the preenlargement years 1995-2003. We distinguish between one-way exports and imports, and two-way successful and unsuccessful price and quality competition in agro-food trade between the CEC-5 and the EU-15. The effect of trade balance on trade competition is found more significant than the effect of export-import unit values difference. Natural and human factor endowments increase price competition and reduce unsuccessful quality competition. Higher level of economic development reduces quality competition, whereas the...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Competition categories; Determinants; Agro-food trade; Central and Eastern Europe; European Union.; International Relations/Trade.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7779

Trade Types in Slovenian Primary and Processed Agricultural Trade
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Majkovic,   Darja; Turk,   Jernej.
The significance of the processed food products in agricultural and food trade is increasing in Slovenia as well as in the other developed countries. The large share of agricultural and food trade is inter-industry trade. The significance of intra-industry trade (IIT) is increasing with the degree of processing. In particular, IIT is based on products differentiated in quality where low quality vertical IIT prevails. This kind of trade specialization and trade patterns, together with trade geography, imply some similarities in these trade developments with developing countries and countries with less competitive food processing rather than with more advanced European Union countries with the competitive food processing sector.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Trade types; Trade quality; Intra-industry trade; International Relations/Trade; F10; F14; F15.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24477

Comparative advantages and competitiveness of Hungarian and Slovenian agro-food trade in the EU markets
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre.
The paper investigates comparative advantages and competitiveness of Hungarian and Slovenian agro- food trade in the EU markets. Applying a highly disaggregated trade dataset, we describe the pattern of agro- food trade in Hungary and Slovenia using the Balassa index. The extent of trade specialization exhibits a declining trend. Both countries have lost comparative advantage for a number of product groups over time. The indices of specialization have tended to converge. For particular product groups, the indices display greater variation. They are stable for product groups with comparative disadvantage, but product groups with weak to strong comparative advantage show significant variation. The price competition, quality competition and the one- way trade...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Comparative Advantage; Price Competition; Agro- Food Trade.; International Relations/Trade.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10069

COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES IN AGRO-FOOD TRADE OF HUNGARY, CROATIA AND SLOVENIA WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre.
This paper investigates comparative trade advantages in agro-food trade. We analyze comparative advantages of Hungarian, Croatian and Slovenian agro-food trade in the European Union (EU) markets. Both the levels and pattern of the revealed comparative advantage measure are investigated. The empirical research seeks to explain how revealed comparative advantages have developed across countries, main product groups and over time and what are likely their implications for multifunctional rural development in the enlarged EU. We employ a disaggregated trade dataset to identify the revealed comparative advantages to provide broader policy implications. The empirical results confirmed bulk of agro-food and forestry products with revealed comparative advantages...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Comparative advantage; Croatia; Hungary; Slovenia.; Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; International Relations/Trade; Marketing; Political Economy; Production Economics; F14; Q17.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90870

AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD TRADE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: THE CASE OF SLOVENIAN INTRA-INDUSTRY TRADE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Hartmann,   Monika.
One of the striking features in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries is the deterioration of their agricultural and food trade balance during transition to a market economy as imports increased faster than exports or exports even declined. This paper investigates the Slovenian agricultural and food trade in more detail focusing on changes in the geographical distribution of trade and the nature of trade specialization on the basis of the Grubel-Lloyd Intra-Industry Trade index and Marginal Intra-Industry Trade Indices. The results indicate that Slovenian agricultural and food trade largely remains of the inter-industry type with specialisation of exports towards the former Yugoslav markets and imports from the European Union. The proportion of...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Intra-industry trade; Integration; Agro-food sector; Industrial Organization; F14; F15; P52; Q17.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14940

Investment and Financial Constraints in European Agriculture: Evidence from France, Hungary and Slovenia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ferto,   Imre; Bakucs,   Lajos Zoltan; Bojnec,   Stefan; Latruffe,   Laure.
The article investigates the investment and financial constraints for French, Hungarian and Slovenian farms using FADN panel data with different econometric estimation approaches. Farm gross investment is positively associated with real sales growth and cash flow implying the absence of soft budget constraint. Gross farm investment is positively associated with investment subsidies. Specific results by country are found depending on farm indebtedness. Investment subsidies can mitigate some capital market imperfections in short-term, while on long-term what is crucial is farm sale ability to successfully compete in the output market gaining sufficient cash flow for farm competitive survival and investment.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Farm investment; Soft budget constraint; Investment subsidy; Panel data analysis; Agricultural Finance; D81; D92; O12; Q12; C23.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114357

Market-Creating Effect of the Internet on Food Trade
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre.
This paper analyses the impact of the number of the Internet users on food industry trade between developed OECD countries using both panel and cross-sectional data. We find the positive, significant and over time increasing effect of the Internet on food industry exports confirming that the Internet reduces market-specific entry costs for food industry exports. The significant positive effect pertained to the Internet is found in the importing countries. The significant positive effects on food industry exports are found for the country’s economic size and bilateral common features and proximities. The Internet mitigates the countries proximities, but increased the distance between the countries.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Internet; Distance; International trade; OECD countries; International Development.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91958

Investment of Slovenian farms in the transition context
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Latruffe,   Laure.
This paper investigates the investment decisions of Slovenian farms during the transition and adjustment period to European Union (EU) membership and in particular whether these decisions were constrained by financing availability. Results from a standard and an augmented accelerator models indicate that farms’ investment decisions was based on market opportunities during the period 1994-2003, but that the decisions were constrained by financing availability.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Farms; Investment; Accelerator model; Financial constraint; Slovenia.; Agricultural and Food Policy.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7827

Institutions, Policy Reforms and Efficiency in New Member States from Central and Eastern Europe
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre; Jambor,   Attila; Toth,   Jozsef.
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 efficiency varies between the NMS-10. We have found positive and significant association of the agricultural sector efficiency with the natural agricultural factor endowments, average farm size, farm specialization, small-scale farms, and the EU integration process. The foreign direct investments have an ambiguous affect, while the nominal assistance rate is not found significant. Reform and institutional developments and liberalization are associated with the...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultural efficiency; Institutions; Policy reforms; Agricultural and Food Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Political Economy; C14; C23; Q12.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91032

Impact of Off-farm Income on Farm Efficiency in Slovenia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre.
The paper investigates the impact of off-farm income on farm technical efficiency for the Slovenian Farm Accountancy Data Network farms in the years 2004-2008. Farm stochastic frontier time-varying decay inefficiency is positively associated with total utilised agricultural areas and total labour input, and vice versa with intermediate consumption and fixed assets. We find a positive association between farm technical efficiency and the off-farm income. Farm technical efficiency has increased steadily over time, the process, which was led by the off-farm spill over effect and most efficient farms. Farm technical efficiency is also positively associated with economic farm size, while association with subsidies is mixed depending on the estimation procedure....
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Off-farm income; Stochastic frontier analysis; Panel regression; Quantile regression; Slovenia; Farm Management.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108945

Patterns and Determinants of Agro-Food Trade of the BRIC Countries: The Role of Institution
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre; Fogarasi,   Jozsef.
Agro-food trade between the BRIC countries has increased. Brazil and China contributed to the rapid increase of agro-food trade. The Russian Federation experienced the stagnating and the most volatile agro-food trade over time. The composition of agro-food trade for the BRIC countries varies by the BEC agro-food trade categories and over time. The prevailing in the composition of agro-food trade are BEC122 and BEC111 for Brazil and the Russian Federation, and BEC122 and BEC112 for India and China. Brazil and India have strengthened their market shares in agro-food trade between the BRIC countries, while the Russian Federation has experienced the most severe deterioration. The number and the share of trading partners that have traded every year vary between...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agro-food trade; BRIC countries; Adapted gravity model; Institutions; Agribusiness; F14; Q17; C23; O57.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/115529

Agricultural Land Markets and Land Leasing in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Petroska Angelovska,   Neda; Ackovska,   Marija; Bojnec,   Stefan.
The aim of this study is to identify the driving forces that shape agricultural land structures, land market and land leasing in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).  Institutional developments and land reforms have so far been modest in the FYROM, and have not contributed to significant changes in agricultural ownership, operational structures, or land market and land leasing arrangements. Land ownership and land use are bimodal, consisting of several small-scale family farms and a few large-scale agricultural enterprises. The small family farms own and operate land on several small parcels, which is one of the major obstacles to the modernisation of family farm production. They produce food for household subsistence with mixed crop, fruit,...
Tipo: Working Paper
Palavras-chave: Agricultural land ownership; Agricultural land operation; Land market; Price of land; Rental values; Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120176

Monetary Impacts and Overshooting of Agricultural Prices in a Transition Economy: The Case of Slovenia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bakucs,   Lajos Zoltan; Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre.
The paper focus on the time adjustment paths of the exchange rate and agricultural producer and industrial prices in response to unanticipated monetary shocks following model developed by Saghaian et al. (2002). We employ Johansen's cointegration test along with a vector error correction model to investigate whether agricultural producer prices overshoot in a transition economy. Results indicate that agricultural prices adjust faster than industrial prices to innovations in the money supply, affecting relative prices in the short run, but strict long-run money neutrality does not hold. The impulse response analysis shows that an exogenous shock to the money supply has a significant and volatile effect on the three price variables. Initially, both the...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultural prices; Exchange rates; Monetary shocks; Overshooting; Transition economy; Financial Economics; C32; E51; P22; Q11.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25515

Developments in the Agricultural and Rural Capital Market of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Angelova,   Biljana; Bojnec,   Stefan.
Factor Markets Coordination: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Capital market; Farm income; Subsidies; Loans; Agricultural and rural development; Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Political Economy.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117490

Communication Costs and Agro-Food Trade in OECD Countries
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre.
The paper analyses the effects of communication costs for agro-food trade in OECD countries between 1995 and 2003 using gravity model. We find that the link between the communication costs and agro-food trade flows in developed countries is significantly stronger for agricultural than for food products. The improved communication services reduce trade transaction costs. The estimations also confirmed importance of the economy size, level of development in importer countries, and trade distance. The other traditional gravity variables like contiguity, language and regional free trade agreements have significant impacts in the majority of specifications
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Communication costs; Agro-food trade; Gravity model; International Relations/Trade; F14; F23; Q17.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50937

The impact of non-farm income on the investment in agriculture: evidence from Hungary and Slovenia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bakucs,   Lajos Zoltan; Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre; Latruffe,   Laure.
The article investigates the impact of non-farm income on the investment for Hungarian and Slovenian farms using FADN panel data for the years 2004-2008 and different econometric estimation approaches. We find that non-farm income is more important for Slovenian farms than for Hungarian farms. Farm gross investment is positively associated with real sales growth and cash flow implying the absence of soft budget constraint. Gross farm investment is negatively associated with non-farm income, but positively associated with investment subsidies. Specific results by country are found depending on growing vs. declining real sales and on farm indebtedness.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Non-farm income; Farm investment; Soft budget constraint; Panel data analysis; Community/Rural/Urban Development; D81; D92; O12; Q12; C23.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95318

Agricultural and Rural Capital Markets in the EU Candidate Countries: Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan.
Factor Markets Coordination: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Capital market; Agriculture and rural areas; European Union; Candidate countries; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Political Economy.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117489

AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD TRADE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: THE CASE OF SLOVENIAN INTRA-INDUSTRY TRADE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Hartmann,   Monika.
One of the striking features in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries is the deterioration of their agricultural and food trade balance during transition to a market economy as imports increased faster than exports or exports even declined. This paper investigates the Slovenian agricultural and food trade in more detail focusing on changes in the geographical distribution of trade and the nature of trade specialization on the basis of the Grubel-Lloyd Intra-Industry Trade index and Marginal Intra-Industry Trade Indices. The results indicate that Slovenian agricultural and food trade largely remains of the inter-industry type with specialisation of exports towards the former Yugoslav markets and imports from the European Union. The proportion of...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Intra-industry trade; Integration; Agro-food sector; Intra-industrieller Handel; Integration; Agrar- und Ernährungssektor; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Industrial Organization; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Development; International Relations/Trade; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis; F14; F15; P52; Q17.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92027

Agri-food business: Global challenges – Innovative solutions
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Swinnen,   Johan F.M.; Vandemartele,   Thijs; Hirschauer,   Norbert; Gaetano,   Martino; Nijhoff-Savvaki,   Rannia; Trienekens,   Jacques H.; Omta,   S.W.F. (Onno); Bachev,   Hrabrin Ianouchev; Bezat-Jarzębowska,   Agnieszka; Jarzebowski,   Sebastian; Paus,   Marguerite; Singh,   Dheeraj; Prahalad,   V.C.; Wangshu,   Lobsang; Bakucs,   Lajos Zoltan; Ferto,   Imre; Havas,   Attila; Ehlers,   Melf-Hinrich; Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre; Levkovych,   Inna; Toth,   Aniko; Forgacs,   Csaba.
The rise of a western-style middle class in many successful emerging economies like China currently is inducing deep structural changes on agricultural world markets and within the global agri-food business. As a result of both higher incomes and concerns over product safety and quality the global demand for high-quality and safe food products is increasing significantly. In order to meet the new required quality, globally minimum quality standards are rising and private standards emerging. All over the world these developments cause adjustments at the enterprise, chain and market levels. At the same time, the tremendously increasing demand for renewable energy has led to the emergence of a highly promising market for biomass production. This has...
Tipo: Book
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Industrial Organization; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Development; Marketing; Political Economy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92317

The Role of Agriculture in Central and Eastern European Rural Development: Engine of Change or Social Buffer?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ahrens,   Heinz; Balint,   Borbala; Baltag,   Grigore; Bezlepkina,   Irina V.; Blaas,   Gejza; Bojnec,   Stefan; Borisova,   Victoria; Brelik,   Agnieszka; Cimpoies,   Dragos; von Cramon-Taubadel,   Stephan; Danilowska,   Alina; Drlik,   Jan; Fock,   Theodor; Gallerani,   Vittorio; Galushko,   Viktoriya; Golemanova,   Antoaneta; Greif,   Franz; Hager,   Astrid; Hann,   Chris; Horska,   Hana; Huirne,   Ruud B.M.; Jansik,   Csaba; Jechlitschka,   Kurt; Kinnucan,   Henry W.; Kirschke,   Dieter; Krypa,   Nada; Malik,   Mykola; Matsibora,   Tetyana; Mishev,   Plamen Dimitrov; Nedyalkov,   Anton; Oskam,   Arie J.; Oude Lansink,   Alfons G.J.M.; Petrick,   Martin; Pelse,   Modrite; Petrikov,   Alexander; Raggi,   Meri; Ratinger,   Tomas; Revishvili,   Zurab; Rodionova,   Galina; Samoggia,   Antonella; Sarris,   Alexander H.; Savastano,   Sara; Sedik,   David J.; Senczyszyn,   Jaroslaw; Spesna,   Daniela; Tritten,   Christian; Tyran,   Ewa; Valentinov,   Vladislav; Viaggi,   Davide; Wegener,   Stefan; Weingarten,   Peter; Zmija,   Janusz.
Tipo: Book
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Farm Management; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/93023

Rural Labour Market Developments in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Janeska,   Verica; Bojnec,   Stefan.
Factor Markets Coordination: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Rural labour market; Agricultural transformation; Rural households; Emigration process; Rural economy business management; Agricultural and Food Policy; Labor and Human Capital; Political Economy.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117486

Price Transmission and Marketing Margins in the Slovenian Beef and Pork Markets During Transition
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan.
As in many other transition countries processing and marketing margins are also larger in the Slovenian meat market than respective margins in market economies. In addition, margin of the Slovenian pork chain is greater than in the beef chain. Its decline in the pork market indicates an adjustment to more competitive markets. Co-integration models are applied to estimate vertical price transmission and to examine margins and degree of competition in the meat marketing chains. Results indicate the existence of a long run equilibrium regarding vertical price transmission in the beef and pork sectors. Both the farm-gate beef and pork prices are identified as weakly exogenous in the long run. The structural tests imposing a homogeneity restriction suggest a...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Price transmission; Marketing margin; Co-integration; Competition; Marketing; D4; L1; C3; Q1.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24789

Food retailing and prices in Slovenia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan.
This paper focuses on agro- food chains and agro- food consumer prices in Slovenia considering its European Union (EU) membership. As the Slovenian agro- food markets were distorted prior to the EU accession with some agro- food prices that were greater than comparable EU prices, the empirical results confirm that with the EU membership Slovenian real agro- food consumer prices have largely downward adjusted. Besides policy changes, internalization of retailing and distribution chains by entries of supermarket s and hypermarket s have had impacts on market structures and rationalization of marketing activities. Supermarket s and hypermarket s are taking over a substantial proportion of retail trade in agro- food products with implications on increasing...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Marketing; Segmentation; Price Adjustments; Slovenia.; Agribusiness.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10106

Agriculture in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina: Social Buffer vs. Development
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan.
This paper draws attention to the specific post-civil-war situation in agriculture and the food sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&amp;H). These developments are presented in an association with the overall situation in the country. Due to economic and non-economic reasons, B&amp;H faces a general problem of a lack of international competitiveness. In a current situation, there are rare products to be internationally competitive and the country relies on imports of food and other products. During the post-civil-war emergency and reconstruction stage, the bulk of food and agricultural inputs, were donated or granted by different governments, humanitarian organizations, and donors to mitigate the effects of widespread poverty caused by the war destructions...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Poverty; Social buffer; Land leasing; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Agribusiness; Q15; Q18; O13; O52.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24726

Agricultural and Rural Labour Markets in the EU Candidate Countries of Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan.
Factor Markets Coordination: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Labour market; Agricultural and rural labour structures; Education; Gender; Unemployment and living conditions in rural areas; Candidate countries; European Union.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Labor and Human Capital; Political Economy.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117487

Competition and Dynamics in Trade Patterns: Hungarian and Slovenian Agri-Food Trade with the European Unions' Trading Partners
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre.
Trade balances and unit values in Hungarian and Slovenian bilateral agri-food trade with Austria, Germany and Italy, respectively, to distinguish types of the one-way and the two-way trade flows, categories of price competition and categories of quality competition in the twoway trade flows, their dynamics and stability over time are analyzed. The two-way matched trade flows prevail among trade types. In the matched two-way bilateral agri-food trade there is prevalence of categories of price competition over categories of non-price competition, but varies across trading partners. In Hungarian agri-food trade the first category of successful price competition and the third category of successful non-price or quality competition prevail, suggesting...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Competition; Trade types; Dynamics; Mobility index; F12; Q17; Q18; International Relations/Trade.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25760

THE INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF BILATERAL AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD TRADE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre.
The paper investigates the effects of the institutional determinants on trade in agricultural and food products among the OECD countries using a gravity model approach. We focus on the impact of the quality of governance and the similarity of institutions in explaining variation in bilateral agricultural and food trade patterns. Results confirmed the separate effects for the institutional similarity and the institutional quality on trade patterns. The institutional similarity has positive and significant impact on trade in a similar institutional framework for agricultural, but less for food products. The institutional quality has significant positive impact on trade in both agricultural and food products for importing countries.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Institutions; International trade; Gravity model; Agribusiness; International Relations/Trade.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53543

Farm growth in Hungary, Slovenia and France
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bakucs,   Lajos Zoltan; Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre; Latruffe,   Laure.
The article investigates the validity of Gibrat’s Law for French, Hungarian and Slovenian farms with FADN data and Heckman selection models, quantiles regressions and panel unit root tests. The contribution to the literature is threefold. First, we compare farm growth in countries with rather different farm structures. Second, we apply two different testing techniques. Finally, we focus on specialised crop and dairy farms rather than all farms, avoiding biases due to heterogeneous structures across the agricultural sector. Results reject the Gibrat’s Law for crop farms in France (except for one sub-period) and Hungary but confirm it for French and Slovenian dairy farms.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Farm growth; Gibrat's Law; Panel unit root; Quintile regression; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/60911

THE PATTERN OF AGRICULTURAL PRICE DISTORTIONS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, AN UPDATE: 1990-1995
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Swinnen,   Johan F.M.
Nominal and adjusted protection rates for nine agricultural commodities in seven Central European and three Baltic states are estimated for the transition period 1990-1995.  Our estimates indicate that agricultural and food price distortions differ strongly between Central and East European countries, between commodities, and varied over time.  The average level of price distortions decreased in 1991 and 1992 after price and trade liberalization, but increased again in 1993 as many of these countries re-introduced protectionist price and trade policy measures.  Since 1994, the average level of price distortions has declined again. Accounting for exchange rate policy effects further reduces estimates of protection of agricultural producers.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis.
Ano: 1996
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31874

Promotion of renewable sources of energy from rural areas
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Papler,   Drago.
This paper investigates the question of promotion of more efficient use of energy and for an increase in supply and use of energy from the renewable sources of energy in rural areas. The empirical research is based on the analysis of the survey evidence that is obtained by the written questionnaire. The 516 in-depth surveys were conducted among the scholars, students, and employees from social sciences, natural sciences, electrical energy supply, and energy management in the six different towns in Slovenia. The surveys data are analysed by using descriptive statistics, comparisons of average values, correlation, and multivariate factor analysis. The needs for more efficient energy use between different users and the significance of production of renewable...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Renewable sources of energy; Rural development; Promotion; Slovenia; Community/Rural/Urban Development; L94; O13; Q42; M39.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95307

HUMAN CAPITAL AND LABOR FLOWS OUT OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR: EVIDENCE FROM SLOVENIA
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Dries,   Liesbeth; Swinnen,   Johan F.M.
This paper analyses of determinants of agricultural labor flows and the role of human capital in this process on the basis of the Slovenian Labor Force Surveys for the years 1993 to 1999.  The household heads living in larger households, having a larger farm size, and working full-time (more hours per week) in permanent jobs are more likely to stay in agricultural employment.  The empirical evidence clearly suggests that human capital plays a crucial role for labor mobility and labor adjustment.  Young, female and educated individuals are more likely to enter into employment in non-agricultural, particularly service activities.  There are remarkable circular flows of elderly and less educated persons between being employed in agriculture, unemployment and...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Slovenia; Human capital; Labor adjustment; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25803

Development of Agricultural Market and Trade Policies in the CEE Candidate Countries.
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Sepp,   Mati; Gorton,   Matthew; Miglavs,   Andris; Kazlauskiene,   Natalija; Meyers,   William H.; Guba,   Waldemar; Ratinger,   Tomas; Safin,   Marius; Simon,   Françoise; Bozik,   Marian; Michalek,   Jerzy; Banse,   Martin; Ferenczi,   Tibor; Bojnec,   Stefan; Turk,   Jernej; Dalton,   Graham E.; Turtoi,   Crina Sinziana; Vincze,   Maria-Magdolna; Davidova,   Sophia; Ivanova,   Nedka Momtscheva; Mishev,   Plamen Dimitrov; Abele,   Steffen; Frohberg,   Klaus; Hartmann,   Monika; Matthews,   Alan; Weingarten,   Peter.
This synthesis report focuses on the evolution of agricultural market and trade policies in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) candidate countries in the period 1997 to 2001. The developments were crucially influenced by (OECD, 2000a): • the situation in world agricultural markets; • the overall macroeconomic development in the countries considered; • the prospective EU accession; • bringing domestic agricultural policy in line with the Uruguay Agreement on Agriculture (URAA). High 1997 agricultural prices on world commodity markets were followed by a marked depression in 1998. With the exemption of milk products this trend continued in 1999. Likewise the economic and financial crisis in Russia had a considerable impact on agricultural policies. It hit...
Tipo: Book
Palavras-chave: Industrial Organization; International Development; Productivity Analysis.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/93083

Impact of public subsidies on farms’ technical efficiency in New Member States before and after EU accession
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Latruffe,   Laure; Bakucs,   Lajos Zoltan; Bojnec,   Stefan; Ferto,   Imre; Fogarasi,   Jozsef; Gavrilescu,   Camelia; Jelinek,   Ladislav; Luca,   Lucian; Medonos,   Tomas; Toma,   Camelia.
This paper presents some results of a two-year (2006-2007) research project supported by the French Ministry of Research’s funding program ECONET. One of the project’s objectives was to investigate the determinants of farm technical efficiency in New Member States before and after accession to the European Union, and in particular the role of public subsidies on this performance variable. Four countries were considered: Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovenia, who acceded to the EU in 2004, and Romania, whose accession was in 2007. The study found that subsidies had a negative impact on farm technical efficiency in Hungary over the period 2001-2005, in the Czech dairy corporate sector over the period 2000-2004, in Slovenia over the period 1994-2003, and...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Technical efficiency; Farms; Subsidies; Hungary; Czech Republic; Slovenia; Romania; Farm Management.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44142

Prevalence of key developments in trade of agro-food in the new member states of the European Union
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan; Majkovic,   Darja; Turk,   Jernej.
The ten new member states (NMS- 10) of the European Union (EU) have contributed to an enhancement in agro- food trade among cur rent EU- 25 members. Intra- industry trade (IIT) represents only minor part of NMS- 10 trade in agro- food products. Their trade in agro- food products is specialised to different countries in terms of economic distance, factor endowments and/or degree of competitiveness of their agro- food sectors. The borderless EU markets are likely to influence the increase of IIT with implications for the EU trade policy, since more than one- third of agro- food trade in the current EU- 25 members is represented by NMS- 10.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: New Member States; Slovenia; Agro- Food Trade; Intra- Industry Trade; International Relations/Trade.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10052

Agricultural and Food Competitiveness in Transition Central and Eastern European Countries: Social Profit Rate and Domestic Resource Cost Approaches
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan.
Agricultural and food products in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) in transition to a market economy experienced improvements in international competitiveness in crops (wheat and sunflower) and higher value-added processed products. Less improvement in competitiveness is for animal products. The international competitiveness is in to some extent maintained by lower factor prices, which are likely to increase by increase in shadow prices of land and labour. Product quality, technology and efficiency improvements and rationalisation of costs, particularly in animal production and food processing are areas for improvements of international competitiveness in CEECs agriculture and the food sector.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26460

Croatia's EU accession: socio-economic assessment of farm households and policy recommendations
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Mollers,   Judith; Zier,   Patrick; Frohberg,   Klaus; Buchenrieder,   Gertrud; Bojnec,   Stefan.
Croatia is very close to meeting the requirements necessary for becoming a member of the European Union (EU). On February 6, 2008, the European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said that accession negotiations with Croatia are moving ahead well. As in all new member states (NMS), the agricultural sector and food processing chain are core issues within the negotiation process. Successful negotiation requires intimate knowledge of the issue at hand, including the socio-economic situation and the fears and strategies of the stakeholders, particularly small-scale farmers. This report attempts to close some of these knowledge gaps by reviewing Croatia’s rural development dynamics and farm structures, as well as agricultural and rural policies. Based on an...
Tipo: Book
Palavras-chave: Croatia; Rural development; EU accession; Slovenia; Farm households; Competitiveness; Agricultural policy; CAP; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; O18; O13; O12.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53665

Land Markets in the Three Candidate Countries of the EU
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bojnec,   Stefan.
Factor Markets Coordination: Centre for European Policy
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Land markets; Land structures; Land productivity; Candidate countries; European Union; Agricultural and Food Policy; Land Economics/Use; Political Economy.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117482

How Effective is the Invisible Hand? Agricultural and Food Markets in Central and Eastern Europe
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hockmann,   Heinrich; Brosig,   Stephan; Popp,   Jozsef; Wilkin,   Jerzy; Juchniewicz,   Małgorzta; Milczarek,   Dominika; Ferto,   Imre; Forgacs,   Csaba; Juhasz,   Aniko; Kurthy,   Gyongyi; Hein,   Piret; Hobbs,   Jill E.; Nuppenau,   Ernst-August; Brümmer,   Bernhard; Zorya,   Sergiy; Bakucs,   Lajos Zoltan; Bojnec,   Stefan; Svetlov,   Nikolai M.; Hurrelmann,   Annette; Maack,   Kai; Hanf,   Jon Henrich; Glauben,   Thomas; Herzfeld,   Thomas; Wang,   Xiaobing; Balint,   Borbala; Lerman,   Zvi; Shagaida,   Natalya; Benner,   Eckhard; Wandel,   Jurgen; Nivievskyi,   Oleg; Kuhn,   Arnim.
Since the seminal work of Adam Smith, markets have been considered an efficient tool for co-ordinating the behaviour of economic agents. The basic characteristic of a market economy is that the complex system of interaction among individuals is not centrally coordinated. Under the assumption of profit and utility maximisation (and a whole set of assumptions about the institutional framework), relative prices and their change over time provide the signals that guide, like an invisible hand, the allocation of resources, i.e., the structure of production and the intensity of input use in the various production processes. They do this by co-ordinating the activities of economic agents, i.e., of resource owners, producers, intermediaries, traders, and...
Tipo: Book
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Industrial Organization; International Development; Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use; Political Economy.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/93018