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| Lerman, Zvi; Shagaida, Natalya. |
| Russia has experienced dramatic changes in land ownership and land tenure since the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991: agricultural land has been largely privatized, individual landowners now have legal rights to most agricultural land in the country, and previous prohibitions on buying and selling of land have been removed by recent laws. The necessary preconditions for the development of agricultural land markets have been met and we are beginning to witness transactions that involve individual landowners, and not only the state. However, further development of the embryonic land market is severely circumscribed by the inadequacy of the administrative and technical infrastructure. In this paper we discuss the dynamically evolving... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: International Development; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15004 |
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| 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 |
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| Lerman, Zvi; Parliament, Claudia. |
| The objective of this study is to determine if there are important size and industry effects on financial performance of cooperatives. The analysis of a sample of 43 cooperatives over the period 1970-1987 indicates that large cooperatives are more efficient in utilization of their assets, while small cooperatives have higher profitability. The dairy cooperatives appear to be the strongest performers among the four industries studied. The food marketing cooperatives, many of which engage in value added processing, are characterized by the lowest performance measures. The most striking trend effect estimated from this sample is the decline in profitability for all industry and size categories. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 1989 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14248 |
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| Kan, Iddo; Kimhi, Ayal; Lerman, Zvi. |
| This article examines the decision of farmers to sell part of their farm output on the market, using data from the Republic of Georgia. A two-level empirical model is used, in which endowments and resource allocation decisions determine farm output and non-farm income, and these in turn determine market participation. We found, as expected, that farm output affects market participation positively, while non-farm income affects it negatively. Landholdings have an indirect positive effect on market participation, through its positive effect on farm output. Education has a negative effect on market participation, mainly through its positive effect on non-farm income. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Commercialization; Market participation; Farm output; Non-farm income; Resource allocation; Agricultural Finance; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/112608 |
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| Gardner, Bruce L.; Lerman, Zvi. |
| Cooperative enterprise has appeal as a means of filling gaps in the economic institutions of the rural sectors of the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. But in addition to problems that have faced cooperatives in the West because of their inherent characteristics, the Soviet-era legacy created cultural burdens that cooperatives will have to overcome. A review of countries’ experiences since 1989 indicates some commonalities in attempts to create “new cooperatives,” but also instructive differences across countries. The evidence so far is unfavorable for cooperatives in agricultural production. In marketing and input supply the current situation is more promising. In both production and marketing, the economic... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7174 |
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| Bruck, Gregory; Grazhdaninova, Margarita; Lerman, Zvi; Uzun, Vasilii. |
| For decades, Russian agriculture had had little technological progress and virtually no foreign investment, which resulted in a stable production possibilities frontier and made the sector ideally suited to production function analysis. The production function estimations reported in Chapters 10-13 add to a series of previous studies of the input/output relationship in Russian agriculture (e.g., Clayton, 1980, 1984; Gray, 1981; Johnson and Brooks, 1983), which generally followed the same methodology. In the late 1970s and the 1980s, however, the average response production functions gave way in the economics literature to more sophisticated production analysis techniques that measured not only productivity but technical efficiency as well (Aigner, et al.,... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7182 |
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| Parliament, Claudia; Lerman, Zvi; Fulton, Joan R.. |
| A comparison of regional dairy cooperatives with investor-owned dairy firms from the period 1976-87 produced empirical findings that are at variance with the hypotheses suggested by the theory of cooperatives. The cooperatives in the sample performed significantly better than the IOFs when compared by leverage, liquidity, asset turnover, and coverage ratios, while the rate of return to equity was not found to be significantly different. Techniques are also proposed for valuing the nonmarket aspects of cooperatives that are not captured by financial ratio analysis. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1990 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46229 |
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| Lerman, Zvi. |
| Agricultural transition in Uzbekistan, as in all CIS countries, is driven by a process of land reform, which involves redistribution of land among producers and concomitant changes in farm structure. In this article we review the process of land reform since Uzbekistan’s independence and examine its impacts on agricultural growth and rural family incomes. The analysis is based on official statistics and data from a farm-level survey carried out in 2007. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
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| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37945 |
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| Parliament, Claudia; Lerman, Zvi. |
| This research examines the effect of risk on the proportion of equity held by agricultural cooperatives. The measured components of risk are business risk and the financial risk that is dependent on the proportion of debt in the cooperative's capital structure. The empirical results indicate the proportion of equity is inversely related to financial risk and positively related to business risk. These risk effects are estimated to differ based on the commodity handled by the cooperative. No Significant relation between the proportion of equity and whether or not the cooperative operates on a pooling basis is estimated. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 1993 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46388 |
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| Glukhikh, Rimma; Lerman, Zvi; Schwartz, Moshe. |
| High risk is inherent to agriculture in Turkmenistan, a post-socialist desert country where the political uncertainties of transition exacerbate natural unpredictability. This study examines risk coping strategies of Turkmen farmers based on a survey of 1100 respondents carried out in 2002 in all five provinces. We propose a new composite index of vulnerability, which includes human capital indicators and geographic location. The analysis relies on a single independent variable, which nevertheless incorporates the effect of criteria interactions. Using survey data, we analyze income smoothing as a mechanisms of risk management across vulnerability groups. Consistently with theoretical expectations, the most vulnerable households seem prefer a smaller, but... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Turkmenistan; Transition; Vulnerability; Income smoothing; Risk and Uncertainty; D1; J2; Q12. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7144 |
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