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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States

Título:

The regional specifity of structural change in agriculture: An assessment of the role of farmers’ strategic behaviour on the land market

Die regionale Spezifität des Agrarstrukturwandels: Eine Analyse der Bedeutung strategischen Verhaltens von Landwirten auf dem Bodenmarkt

Autores: | Margarian,   Anne.
Data: | 2010-03-17
Ano: | 2009
Palavras-chave: | Market Structure; Firm Behaviour; Equilibria; Rationality; Farming; Complementarity; Competition; Disequilibrium Dynamics; Agriculture; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Institutional and Behavioral Economics.
Resumo: | Among the family-farms in western Germany, significant regional differences are observable. They exist not only with respect to present farm-structure but also with respect to patterns of structural change. In the present paper, the different farm-development-strategies that cause these regional patterns are explained economically. As a central cause for their stability in a competitive environment, the relatedness of agricultural production to the non-renewable factor land is identified. Moreover, the coordination of the different strategies, which results in regional clusters, is shown to evolve endogenously in a model of strategic interaction on the land-market. It is demonstrated that due to the existence of rents of the status quo and resulting non-linearity in farmers’ reaction-curves, coordination-failures and multiple equilibria are possible. The theoretically derived results confirm the notion that not only farmers’ decisions determine structural development but also the initial structural situation heavily influences upon farmers’ decisions. The interdependence between structure and behaviour is reinforced by the important role of expectation concerning competitors’ behaviour in strategic interaction, because these expectations are coined by experience.
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/59522

Relação:

Humboldt University Berlin&gt;Institute for Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences&gt;Structural Change in Agriculture/Strukturwandel im Agrarsektor (SiAg) Working Papers

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