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| Zahrnt, Valentin. |
| To attain fundamental reform of the post-2013 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), a serious debate is needed in 2009/10 that prepares the decisions to be taken in 2011/12. The paper contributes to this debate, first, by arguing that the Single Farm Payment should not become the mainstay of the future CAP but be gradually phased out. Second, it proposes that the existing two-pillar structure of the CAP should be replaced by a public goods pillar (containing all efficient policies to be preserved) and a discretionary pillar (encompassing all inefficient policies to be removed over time). This would give member states flexibility in how they phase out inefficient policies, while the EU reform agenda would not be clogged with the contentious details of their... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: CAP; Subsidies; Budget review; Agricultural and Food Policy; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51300 |
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| Beckmann, Volker; Boger, Silke. |
| The paper investigates theoretically and empirically the role of courts for contract enforcement in transition agriculture. In a survey of 306 Polish hog farmers conducted in 1999, only 38.5% of them reported to believe that they could use courts to enforce contracts with their most important customer. Furthermore, those who believe the legal system could be used would accept significant financial losses before taking action. We develop a theoretical model, based on the costs and benefits of court enforcement, which captures the boundary between contracts to be regarded as "enforceable" and "not-enforceable" and, simultaneously, the threshold of taking legal action. The empirical analysis strongly supports our model: (1) the farmers' responds can be... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural contracts; Contract enforcement; Courts; Transition; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25878 |
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| Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Stiller, Silvia. |
| Border regions and border effects currently attract a lot of attention in political practice and economic research. Substantial interest in regions located along the frontiers of integrating countries is predominantly inspired by the presumption that their specific geographic position might cause peculiarities in economic adjustments to integration. This survey explores whether economic theory and empirical studies support the assessment that integration effects concentrate in border regions. Economic theory alone allows only very vague conclusions about the spatial effects of integration. Depending on specific circumstances, border regions might benefit, lose or not be affected by integration. Empirical research on border regions - undertaken so far -... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Regional development; Border regions; Integration effects; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Political Economy; R12; F15; O18. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26340 |
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| Finan, Frederico; Ferraz, Claudio. |
| As part of a recent anti-corruption campaign, the Brazilian government began to audit the municipal expenditure of federally-transferred funds. Using these audit reports, we construct a unique data set of political corruption to test whether reelection incentives affect the level of corruption in a municipality. Consistent with a political economy agency model, we find that mayors who are in their second and final term are significantly more corrupt than first-term mayors. In particular, second-term mayors on average divert, R$188,431.4 more than first-term mayors, which is approximately 4 percent of the total amount transferred to municipalities. We also find much more pronounced effects among municipalities where the costs of rent-extraction are lower,... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19544 |
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| Alvey, James E.. |
| Adam Smith's four-stage theory provides the framework for his writings on history. The fourth stage is the commercial epoch; the culmination of history in this stage is a key component in the conventional interpretation of Adam Smith as a prophet of commercialism. In two historical case studies Smith shows the capacity of commercial society to regenerate itself. This potent capacity suggests that commercial society is inevitable. At a certain point in time it also overcomes the major obstacles to its permanence. Smith's philosophy of history anticipates the end of history views of Kant and Hegel. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23708 |
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| Mollers, Judith. |
| Problem and objectives. Non-farm rural diversification is gaining prominence in the debate on rural development since the end of the 1990s. The expansion of non-farm employment and the diversification of incomes are important policy objectives because they offer a solution to the employment and structural problems of a shrinking agricultural sector. Development policies focusing on the rural non-farm sector aim at offering employment options and reducing urban migration. They can contribute to poverty reduction, economic growth and a more equal income distribution. This research is based on a household survey including 240 randomly selected rural households in the regions of Gorenjska and Pomurska in Slovenia as well as Gevgelija and Kumanovo in Macedonia.... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92495 |
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| Kroll, Jean Cristophe. |
| The reform of the CAP in 1999, with extensive revisions in 2003 (Council regulation 1782/2003), was constructed around three central ideas: decoupling, cross-compliance of payments, and modulation. Decoupling, which is specifically analysed in this article, is intended to eliminate all aid linked in one way or another to production, in favour of aid which is completely independent of the production activity. It is encapsulated in the new 2003 regulation by the introduction of the right to a single farm payment (SFP) proportional to farm area, independent of production activities. These new arrangements have been accompanied by much variation in the application of the reform, and the member states have taken great advantage of the extensive room for... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: CAP; Fischler Reform; Implementation. SFP.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Political Economy; Q10; Q18. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44867 |
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| Simon, Szilvia. |
| Napjainkban a világgazdaság egyik legfontosabb megoldásra váró problémája, hogy hogyan előzhető meg újabb globális pénzügyi és gazdasági válságok kialakulása, illetve léteznek-e olyan módszerek, eszközök, amelyek segítségével a már kialakult válságok hatásai, következményei mérsékelhetők. A módszerek, eszközök részben már rendelkezésre állnak, melyek közül célszerű kiemelni a konszern számvitel módszertanát, mert segítségével elkészíthető konszolidált éves beszámolót. E konszolidált éves beszámoló ugyanis alkalmas arra, hogy a konszerntagok közötti belső kapcsolatokból adódó halmozódásokat kiszűrve előmozdítsa a vállalatcsoportok reális megítélését. Segítségével elkerülhetővé válhat a – válság kialakulásában nagymértékben szerepet játszó – jogi, pénzügyi... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Globális pénzügyi válság; Élelmiszer-gazdaság; Konszolidáció; Anyavállalatok; Global economic crisis; Food economy; Consolidation; Parent companies; Financial Economics; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99176 |
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| Eguia, Jon X.. |
| This paper studies the advantages that a coalition of agents obtains by forming a voting bloc to pool their votes and cast them all together. We identify the necessary and sufficient conditions for an agent to benefit from the formation of the voting bloc, both if the agent is a member of the bloc and if the agent is not part of the bloc. We also determine whether individual agents prefer to participate in or step out of the bloc, and we find the different optimal internal voting rules that aggregate preferences within the coalition. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12172 |
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| Lammers, Konrad. |
| Im Zuge der europäischen Integration haben die nationalen Regierungen Kompetenzen an europäische Institutionen abgegeben. Die Folge ist, daß die ökonomische Entwicklung in der EU mehr und mehr von wirtschaftsräumlichen Faktoren anstatt von administrativen nationalen Unterschieden bestimmt wird. Der gestiegenen Bedeutung wirtschaftsräumlicher Faktoren müßte durch mehr gesetzgebende und administrative Kompetenzen regionaler Gebietskörperschaften entsprochen werden. Regionale Gebietskörperschaften in der EU sind in den letzten Jahren allerdings kaum substantiell gestärkt worden. Die Gestaltungskraft der nationalen Ebene ist nach wie vor groß, und es ist noch ein langer Weg, bis ein "Europa der Regionen" entstanden sein wird. In the course of European... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Political Economy. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26251 |
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| Richards, Diana. |
| Shared knowledge structures, such as cognitive categories and relationships, are central to the interpretation of a complex social environment and thus play an important role in mediating between individual preferences and group outcomes. This article defines a "knowledge-induced equilibrium" that applies to both cooperative game theory, such as social choice and voting, and to non-cooperative game theory, such as coordination games. This equilibrium concept bridges between interpretive approaches, which emphasize cognitive structures or frames, and positive approaches, which focus on preferences, choice, and the stability of collective outcomes. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Political Economy. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7478 |
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