Contents

Table of contents

Volume 24(1) (1st quarter 1997)

• Quota mobility in the European sugar regime - Jean-Christophe Bureau, Hervé Guyomard, Laurent Morin and Vincent Réquillart
• Efficiency loss due to distortions in Dutch milk quota trade - Maroeska Boots, Alfons Oude Lansink and Jack Peerlings
• A safety-first approach to dynamic cropping decisions - G. Cornelis van Kooten, Douglas L. Young and Jeffrey A. Krautkraemer
• Do they come back again? The symmetry and reversibility of off-farm employment - Christoph R. Weiss
• Farm based modelling of regional structural change; a cellular automata approach - Alfons Balmann
• Frontier technology and inefficiencies in programming sector models: an application to Swedish agriculture - Lars Jonasson and Jeffrey Apland
• Weak separability in coffee demand systems - Daniel Sellen and Ellen Goddard

Plus six book reviews.

Volume 24(2) (2nd quarter 1997)

• Policy choices and interdependence of country decisions in the implementation of the 1994 GATT 'Agreement on agriculture' - Giovanni Anania
• Aggregation methods for intercountry comparisons of prices and real values in agriculture: a review - V. Eldon Ball, Ahmed Barkaoui, Jean-Christophe Bureau and Jean-Pierre Butault
• Regulating nonpoint-source pollution from agriculture; an integrated modelling analysis - Arild Vatn et al.
• Effects of N-surplus taxes: combining technical and historical information - Alfons Oude Lansink and Jack Peerlings
• Does compensation for disruptions stimulate reforms? The case of agrarian reform in Central and Eastern Europe - Johan F.M. Swinnen
• Convenience yield and the option to liquidate for commodities with a crop cycle - Nikolaos T. Milonas and Stavros B. Thomadakis
• Cointegration and prediction analysis of market supply in the Dutch pig farming industry - W. Erno Kuiper and Matthew T.G. Meulenberg
• The Ricardian rent and the allocation of land under uncertainty: comment – David A. Hennessy

Plus six book reviews.

Proceedings of the 8^th Congress of the E.A.A.E.

Presidential address

• If… Agricultural economics in a brave liberal world - Allan Buckwell

• Economic transition and integration in Europe

• Sectoral and economy-wide analysis of integrating Central and Eastern European countries into the EU: Implications of alternative strategies – Thomas W. Hertel, Martina Brockmeier and Padma V. Swaminathan
  Discussion - Klaus Frohberg

Food markets in global competition

• Globalisation in the food industries? - Bruce Traill

• Intra-industry trade in the European dairy industry - Renato Pieri, Daniele Rama and Luciano Venturini
  Discussion - Fernando Brito Soares

• Land reform and farm restructuring in East Central Europe and CIS in the 1990's: Expectations and achievements after the first five years - Csaba Csaki and Zvi Lerman

• Transaction costs, farm finance and investment - Catherine Benjamin and Euan Phimister
  Discussion - Hans Andersson

• International agricultural trade negotiations under GATT/WTO: Experiences, future challenges and possible outcomes - Aart de Zeeuw

• Environment and quality standards in the WTO: New protectionism in agricultural trade? A European perspective - Louis-Pascal Mahé
  Discussion - Secondo Tarditi

• How to organise nature production by farmers - Louis H.G. Slangen

• Effectiveness of farm policies on social and economic development in rural areas - Chris Doyle, Morag Mitchell and Kairsty Topp
  Discussion - Jerzy Wilkin

• Emerging policy challenges for the agri-food sector - Alan Matthews

• Agricultural economics in Europe: A thriving science for a shrinking sector? – Claus-Hennig Hanf

• Estimating asymmetric price transmission with the error correction representation: an application to the German pork market - Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel
• Inflation, agricultural prices and economic convergence in Greece - George P. Zanias
• Predicting financial stress in farm business - J.R. Franks
• Contingent valuation of the public benefits of agricultural wildlife management: the case of Dutch peat meadow land - Roy Brouwer and Louis H.G. Slangen
• Dynamic and static approaches to mixed good management: the case of minke whales in the Northeast Atlantic - Erwin Bulte, Henk Folmer and Wim Heijman
• A non-interactive methodology to assess farmers’ utility function: an application to large farms in Andalusia, Spain - Francisco Amador, José María Sumpsi and Carlos Romero
• Restricting intensive livestock production: economic effects of mineral policy in The Netherlands - Rien Komen and Jack Peerlings
• The effects of advertising in an inverse demand system - Kyrre Rickertsen

Plus book reviews

• Producers’ loss due to asymmetric information: an application to a specific case - Sylvette Monier-Dilhan & Hervé Ossard
• Modelling the consumption of home-produced vegetables with an application to French Households - France Caillavet, Véronique Nichelle and Jean-Marc Robin
• Estimation of multi-output production functions with incomplete data: a generalised maximum entropy approach - Sergio H. Lence and Douglas J. Miller
• Local innovative capability and innovation adoption in agriculture: computers on Italian farms - Antonio Cioffi and Maria Teresa Gorgitano
• Branding fresh food products, exploratory empirical evidence from The Netherlands - Edwin J. Nijssen and Hans C.M. van Trijp
• Economic transition and the distribution of policy rents: the case of the wheat-flour-bread chain in Bulgaria - Johan F.M. Swinnen
• Comment on "Efficiency analysis with panel data: a study of Portuguese dairy farms" - George E. Battese

Plus book reviews

• Introduction - Ulrich Koester
• Agricultural Research in Transforming Central and Eastern Europe - Csaba Csaki
• Does Land Reform Matter? Some Experiences from the Former Soviet Union - Zvi Lerman
• Up- and Downstream Restructuring, Foreign Direct Investment and Hold-Up Problems in Agricultural Transition - Hamish R. Gow and Johan F. M. Swinnen
• Agricultural Transformation and Implications for Designing Rural Financial Policies in Romania - Franz Heidhues, Junior R. Davis and Gertrud Schrieder
• Inflation and Relative Price Volatility in Russian Food Markets - J.-P.Loy
• Regional Protection Rates for Food Commodities in Russia: Producer and Consumer Perspectives - Olga Melyukhina, Matin Qaim and Peter Wehrheim
• Evaluating the effects of price and trade liberalisation on the technical efficiency of agricultural production in a transition economy: The case of Russia - Sergey Sotnikov

Plus book reviews

• Non-tariff trade barriers and consumer’s information: the case of EU-US trade dispute on beef – Jean-Christophe Bureau, Stephan Marette and Alessandra Schiavina
• Political economy determinants of agricultural protection levels in EU member states: an empirical investigation – Alessandro Olper
• A multi-attribute utility model to optimise sow replacement decisions – R.B.M. Huirne and J.B. Hardaker
• Rural-urban interdependencies: analysis using an inter-regional SAM model – Deborah Roberts
• Estimating the direct and indirect impact of residential and recreational functions on rural areas: an application to five small areas of France – Dominique Vollet

Plus six book reviews

• On the comparative evaluation of agricultural income distributions in the European Union – Paul Allanson, Lionel Hubbard
• Old age security and inter-generational transfer of family farms – Claudio Pesquin, Ayal Kimhi, Yoav Kislev
• Irreversible decision making in contagious animal disease control under security: an illustration using FMD in Brittany – Olivier Mahul, Alexandre Gohin
• Stock-outs and supply response estimation under rational expectations – Darren L. Frechette
• The user cost of capital in Danish and Swedish agriculture – Carl Johan Lagerkvist
• Generalised maximum entropy estimation and heterogeneous technologies – Alfons Oude Lansink

Selection of papers presented at the 62^nd EAAE seminar in Toulouse, November 1998

Guest editors: Philippe Bontems and Vincent Réquillart

• Private labels and manufacturer counterstrategies - David E. Mills

• Strategic Effects of Private Labels - Philippe Bontems, Sylvette Monier-Dilhan and Vincent Réquillart

• The role of common labelling in a context of asymmetric information - Stéphan Marette, John M. Crespi and Alessandra Schiavina

• Avoiding double marginalisation in agro-food chains - Éric Giraud-Héraud, Louis-Georges Soler and Hervé Tanguy

• Quality and self-regulation in agricultural markets: How do Producers’ Organisations make the rules? - Angelo M. Zago

• Product heterogeneity and the relationship between retail and farm prices - Michael K. Wohlgenant

• Short-run equilibrium and market power in the Spanish food, drink and tobacco industries - Joaquín A. Millán

Plus book reviews

• Redesigning the CAP to meet the challenges of EU enlargement and the WTO: What can agricultural research contribute? - Ewa Rabinowicz

• A Decade of Transition in Central and Eastern European Agriculture - Alexandra Trzeciak-Duval

• Agricultural Restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe: Implications for Competitiveness and Rural Development - Alexander H. Sarris, Tomáš Doucha and Erik Mathijs

• Differences in Farm Efficiency in Market and Transition Economies: Empirical evidence from West and East Germany - Holger Thiele and Claus M. Brodersen

• The Impact of Financial Crisis on Russia’s Agro-Food Sector - Eugenia Serova, Joachim von Braun and Peter Wehrheim

• Implementation of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture and Developments for the Next Round of Negotiations - Tim Josling and Stefan Tangermann

• CAP Reform and the WTO: Compatibility and Developments - Alan Swinbank

• Emerging Public Concerns in Agriculture: Domestic Policies and International Trade Commitments - David Blandford and Linda Fulponi

• Double hurdle and purchase infrequency demand analysis: A feasible integrated approach - Ayal Kimhi
• Co-ordinating economic, behavioural and spatial aspects of wildlife preservation in agriculture - Ada Wossink, Jaap van Wenum, Clifford Jurgens and Geert de Snoo
• Testing regularity properties in static and dynamic duality models: the case of Greek agriculture - Ioanna Reziti and Adam Ozanne
• A Risk Programming Approach for Analysing Contractual Choice in the Presence of Transaction Costs - Andrew Dorward
• On Dynamic Arbitrage Pricing and Information: The Case of the US Broiler Sector - Jean-Paul Chavas
• Cyprus in the EU: a quantitative analysis of adopting the CAP - Charalambos A. Pattichis
• Output counts: Comparing the published contributions by agricultural economists across countries - Rolf A.E. Mueller and Daniel A. Sumner

Plus seven book reviews

Volume 27(1)  (1st quarter 2000)

• Incomplete transmission of coffee bean prices: Evidence from the Netherlands  - L. Bettendorf and F. Verboven
• Site specific management of agricultural inputs: An illustration for variable rate irrigation - Eli Feinerman and Hillary Voet
• Optimal advertising levies with application to the Norway-EU salmon agreement - Henry W. Kinnucan and Øystein Myrland
• Productivity growth and efficiency measurement : A dual approach - Alfons Oude Lansink
• The economic benefits to agriculture of a reduction of low-level ozone pollution in the Netherlands - O.J. Kuik, J.F.M. Helming, C. Dorland, and F.A. Spaninks

Plus seven book reviews

Volume 27(2) – (2^nd quarter 2000)

• Hedging crop risk with yield insurance futures and options - Olivier Mahul and Dominique Vermersch
• True state dependence and heterogeneity in off-farm labour participation - Alessandro Corsi and Jill L. Findeis
• Estimating the long-run supply and demand for agricultural labour in the UK - K. Balcombe and A. Prakash
• Nitrogen efficiency of Dutch dairy farms: A shadow cost system approach - Stijn Reinhard and Geert Thijssen
• Convergence in US and EU agriculture - Luciano Gutierrez
• The economics of soil nutrient stocks and cattle ranching in the tropics: Optimal pasture degradation in humid Costa Rica - Erwin H. Bulte, Bas A.M. Bouman, Roel A.J. Plant, André Nieuwenhuyse and Hans G.P. Jansen
• African wildlife policy: Protecting wildlife herbivores on private game ranches - Patrick I.D. Kinyua, G. Cornelis van Kooten and Erwin H. Bulte

Plus book reviews

• Comparing EU and US Trade Liberalisation under the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture - Jean-Christophe Bureau, Linda Fulponi and Luca Salvatici
• Emissions of greenhouse gases from agriculture: the heterogeneity of abatement costs in France - Stéphane De Cara and Pierre-Alain Jayet
• Heterogeneous preferences in household food consumption in Italy - Daniele Moro and Paolo Sckokai
• Transaction cost analysis of outsourcing farm administration by Belgian farmers - Tom Vernimmen, Wim Verbeke and Guido van Huylenbroeck
• Oligopsony power with uniform spatial pricing: Theory and application to milk processing in Spain - Antonio Alvarez, Eduardo Fidalgo, Richard Sexton and Mingxia Zhang
• The impact of public R&D and extension expenditure on Italian agriculture: An application of a mixed parametric/nonparametric approach - Roberto Esposti
• Measuring the recreational value of agricultural landscape - Aliza Fleischer and Yacov Tsur

Plus book reviews

• Analysis of EU dairy policy reform - Zohra Bouamra Mechemache and Vincent Réquillart

• The value of price and quantity fixing contracts for piglets in Finland - Kyosti S. Pietola and H. Holly Wang

• Short- and long-run effects of macroeconomic variables on the Spanish agricultural sector - Monia Ben Kaabia and José M. Gil

• The decomposition of cost inefficiency into technical and allocative components with a panel data of Italian dairy farms - Ornella Wanda Maietta

• Decomposing productivity growth allowing efficiency gains and price induced technical progress - Alfons Oude Lansink, Elvira Silva and Spiro Stefanou

• A hedonic analysis of agricultural land prices in England and Wales - David Maddison

Volume 28(1) - (1st quarter 2001)

• Farmer response to policies promoting organic farming technologies in Finland - Kyösti S. Pietola and Alfons Oude Lansink

• Whole-farm planning under uncertainty: impacts of subsidy scheme and utility function on portfolio choice in Norwegian agriculture - Gudbrand Lien and Brian Hardaker

• Hurdle count-data models of meat consumption in Bulgaria - Wanki Moon, Wojciech J. Florkowski, Larry R. Beuchat, Pavlina Paraskova, Anna V. A. Resurreccion, Manjeet S. Chinnan and Jordan Jordanov

• Sugar sector restructuring in Poland: some benefits and costs of EU accession - Peter Walkenhorst

Plus book reviews

Volume 28(2) - (2nd quarter 2001)

• Testing for speculation in agricultural land in Ireland - Maurice J. Roche and Kieran McQuinn
• Endogenous technology switches in Dutch dairy farming under environmental restrictions - Marinus H.C. Komen and Jack H.M. Peerlings
• Price transmission: the interaction between market power and returns to scale - S.McCorriston, C.W.Morgan and A.J.Rayner
• Optimal fleet size in the English Channel: a multi-objective programming approach - Sean Pascoe and Simon Mardle
• The impact of management regulation on the technical efficiency of vessels in the Dutch beam trawl fishery - Sean Pascoe, Jesper Levring Andersen and Jan-Willem de Wilde
• CAP reform and the re-balancing of support for cereals and oilseeds: a farm level analysis - R.W. Ackrill, S.J. Ramsden and J.M. Gibbons

Plus book reviews

Volume 28(3) - (3rd quarter 2001)

• Quality and contractual choice: a transaction cost approach to the Polish hog market - Silke Boger
• What price precaution? European harmonisation of aflatoxin regulations and African food exports - Tsunehiro Otsuki, John S. Wilson and Mirvat Sewadeh
• Estimating confidence intervals for technical efficiency: The case of private farms in Slovenia - Bernhard Brümmer
• The effects of dollar/sterling exchange rate volatility on futures markets for coffee and cocoa - Adusei Jumah and Robert M. Kunst
• Moral hazard, risk aversion and compliance monitoring in agri-environmental policy - Adam Ozanne, Tim Hogan and David Colman
• Estimation and inference in cointegrated demand systems: an application to Tunisian meat consumption -  M. Ben Kaabia and J.M. Gil

Plus nine book reviews

Volume 28(4) - (4th quarter 2001)

Special Issue: The Food Consumer in the 21^st Century

Special Issue editors: José M. Gil and Azucena Gracia

• Introduction - José M. Gil and Azucena Gracia
• Infrequency of purchase and double-hurdle models of Irish households’ meat expenditure - Carol Newman, Maeve Henchion and Alan Matthews
• Greek household consumption of food away from home (FAFH): a microeconometric approach - Vasilis G. Mihalopoulos and Michael P. Demoussis
• Assessing consumer response to protected designation of origin labelling: a mixed multinomial logit approach - Céline Bonnet and Michel Simioni
• The role of the region of origin and EU certificates of origin in consumer evaluation of food products - Ivo A. van der Lans, Koert van Ittersum, Antonella De Cicco and Margaret Loseby
• Consumer Attitudes to Genetically Modified Organisms in Food in the UK - Michael Burton, Dan Rigby, Trevor Young and Sallie James
• Health information and the demand for meat in Spain - Monia Ben Kaabia, Ana M. Angulo and José M. Gil

Volume 29(1) - (1st quarter 2002)

• Modelling trade in processed food products: an econometric investigation with French data -Yves Surry, Nadine Herrard and Yves Le Roux
• Consumer response to a food safety incident: Exploring the role of supplier differentiation in an experimental study - Andreas Böcker
• Efficiency and productivity of conventional and organic farms in Finland 1994-97 - Alfons Oude Lansink, Kyösti Pietola and Stefan Bäckman
• Identification by direct adjustment: evidence from the relationship between futures and spot prices - W. Erno Kuiper, Joost M.E. Pennings and Matthew T.G. Meulenberg
• Beverage consumption among US children and adolescents: Full-information and quasi maximum-likelihood estimation of a censored system - Steven T. Yen and Biing-Hwan Lin

Special Topic: Old and New Challenges in International Agricultural Trade

• Introduction - Panu Kallio
• Tariff-rate quotas: Failed market access instruments? - Philip C. Abbott
• Perspectives on the state trading issue in the WTO negotiations - Steve McCorriston and Donald MacLaren
• Regulation of biotechnology: Will we ever "freely" trade GMOs? - Ian M. Sheldon

Guest editor: Kostas Karantininis

• Ten rules of thumb in contract design: lessons from Danish agriculture - Peter Bogetoft and Henrik Ballebye Olesen
• Optimal linear contracts with heterogeneous agents - Armando Levy and Tomislav Vukina
• Informal insurance in renewable resource harvesting - Rabindra Nath Chakraborty
• Estimation of an efficient tomato contract - Brent Hueth and Ethan Ligon

• On the emergence of new growers’ associations: self-selection versus countervailing power - George Hendrikse and Jos Bijman

• Moral hazard, vertical integration and public monitoring in credence goods - Henrik Vetter and Kostas Karantininis

Plus book reviews

• Introduction - Jean-Christophe Bureau
• Valuing the outputs of multifunctional agriculture - Alan Randall
• Multifunctional agriculture: Some consequences for international trade regimes - Arild Vatn
• Economic issues related to quarantine in international trade - J. D. Mumford
• Why should imperfect competition matter to agricultural economists? - Steve McCorriston

• Competition policy and the agribusiness sector in the European Union - Paolo Buccirossi, Stéphan Marette and Alessandra Schiavina

• Agricultural trade and the Barcelona Process: Is full liberalisation possible? - José-María García-Alvarez-Coque

Volume 29(4) - (4th quarter 2002)

• Environmental policies for a multifunctional agricultural sector in open economies -Jeffrey M. Peterson, Richard N. Boisvert and Harry de Gorter
• The Agenda 2000 CAP reform, world prices and GATT/WTO export constraints - Hans van Meijl and Frank van Tongeren
• Combining time-varying and dynamic multi-period optimal hedging models - Michael S. Haigh and Matthew T. Holt
• On government credibility, compensation and under-investment in public research - Johan F.M. Swinnen and Harry de Gorter
• The validity of parametric link functions in discrete choice models of food purchases: empirical evidence from Greek microdata - Panos Fousekis and Panagiotis Lazaridis

Volume 30(1) - (1st quarter 2003)

• Reform of EU sugar policy: price cuts versus quota reductions - Søren E. Frandsen, Hans G. Jensen, Wusheng Yu and Aage Walter-Jørgensen

• Estimation of constrained optimisation models for agricultural supply analysis based on Generalised Maximum Entropy - Thomas Heckelei and Hendrik Wolff
• Agri-environmental externalities: a framework for designing targeted policies - Jussi Lankoski and Markku Ollikainen
• Grain price volatility in a small open economy - Maurice J. Roche and Kieran McQuinn
• Timing and type of exit from farming: Farmers’ early retirement programmes in Finland - Kyösti Pietola, Minna Väre and Alfons Oude Lansink

Plus book reviews

Volume 30(2) - (2nd quarter 2003)

• Who gains, who loses? Welfare effects of Classical Swine Fever epidemics in the Netherlands - M.-J.J. Mangen and A.M. Burrell
• Price transmission, BSE and structural breaks in the UK meat sector - Ana I. Sanjuán and P.J. Dawson
• The effect of the BSE outbreak in Japan on consumers’ preferences - Hyun J. Jin and Won W. Koo
• The single-bid restriction on milk quota exchanges - Peter Bogetoft, Kurt Nielsen and Henrik Olesen
• Hedging price risk in the presence of crop yield and revenue insurance - Olivier Mahul
• Time-varying coefficients in the Almost Ideal Demand System: an empirical appraisal - Mario Mazzocchi

• Riskier product portfolio under decoupled payments - Maurice J. Roche and Kieran McQuinn
• Impacts of alternative agricultural income support schemes on multiple policy goals - Hervé Guyomard, Chantal Le Mouël and Alexandre Gohin
• Regional social accounting matrices for structural policy analysis in lagging EU rural regions - Demetrios Psaltopoulos, Kenneth J. Thomson, Sophia Efstratoglou, Jukka Kola and Anna Daouli
• Effect of information about benefits of biotechnology on consumer acceptance of genetically modified food: evidence from experimental auctions in the United States, England and France - Jayson L. Lusk, Lisa O. House, Carlotta Valli, Sara R. Jaeger, Melissa Moore, J.L. Morrow and W. Bruce Traill
• Willingness-to-pay for safety improvements in the German meat sector: the case of the Q&S label - Ulrich Enneking

• Willingness-to-pay for food safety: an experimental investigation of quality certification effects on bidding behaviour  - Anne Rozan, Anne Stenger and Marc Willinger

• Wildlife and landscape services production in Dutch dairy farming; jointness and transaction costs - Jack Peerlings and Nico Polman

• Developed speculation and under developed markets: the effect of futures trading on export prices in less developed countries - Randall Fortenbery and Hector Zapata

• On the Ricardian rent and the allocation of land under joint price and yield uncertainty - Alexander E. Saak

• Agricultural price volatility spill-over effects: A Comment - Philip Kostov and Seamus McErlean  
• Agricultural price volatility spill-over effects: Reply  - Nicholas Apergis and Anthony Rezitis

• Local compensation payments for agri-environmental externalities: a panel data analysis of bargaining outcomes - Franz Hackl, Martin Halla and Gerald J. Pruckner

• Consumer willingness to pay for farm animal welfare: mobile abattoirs versus transportation to slaughter? - Fredrik Carlsson, Peter Frykblom and Carl Johan Lagerkvist

• Extrapolating experimental auctions results using a stated choice survey - Frode Alfnes and Kyrre Rickertsen

• Strategic response to GMOs by GM-free countries - Luc Veyssiere

• Estimating technical efficiency under unobserved heterogeneity with stochastic frontier models: application to Northern German dairy farms - Awudu Abdulai and Hendrik Tietje

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