Agricultural Economics, 2011 (vol. 57), issue 2
The allocation of financial resources of the EU Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund during the period 2007-2013
W. Heijman, T. Koch
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(2):49-56 | DOI: 10.17221/139/2010-AGRICECON 
The article describes a model to predict the allocation of the EU Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund over the EU member states. By comparing the predicted allocation with the real allocation, it is possible to indicate which member states receive more and which countries receive less than the predicted share. The variables determining the predicted allocation are the GDP per capita and the size of the population.
International debts of developing countries
Vladimír JENÍČEK
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(2):57-63 | DOI: 10.17221/120/2010-AGRICECON
The problem of international debts is, by its character, one of the most complex problems which the world economy is now facing. It complicates both the global balance of payments and the financial - credit system stability, with pronounced negative impacts on the currency stabilisation. It hinders the development of international economic co-operation and its higher forms - international economic integration. It is one of the reasons that the symmetrical forms of interdependence are pushed off and displaced by the asymmetrical ones. The global debts problem deteriorates, namely during the last time in interaction with the negative manifestations of...
Information and communication infrastructure development and agro-food trade
Štefan BOJNEC, Imre FERTŐ
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(2):64-70 | DOI: 10.17221/82/2010-AGRICECON
The purpose of this paper is to provide an adapted gravity trade model to measure the influence of communication infrastructure development on agro-food trade. The adapted gravity trade model presents associations of bilateral agro-food trade between OECD countries with traditional gravity equation variables and particularly with variables of the information and communication infrastructure development. Using the adapted gravity trade model we find a positive association between the information and communication infrastructure development and bilateral agro-food trade flows between OECD countries. This association is significantly stronger for agricultural...
Comparison of selected indicators of farms in the EU member states
Václav Bašek, Josef Kraus
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(2):71-84 | DOI: 10.17221/21/2010-AGRICECON
The following international comparison of selected indicators of farms stems from the official results of investigations on holdings incorporated in the "Farm Accountancy Data Network" (FADN) and it is based on the standard outputs recalculated for the average agricultural holding in each Member State. The paper accepts the mandatory concept that defines the basic indicators serving to illustrate the creation and division of income from farming in the FADN system. The presentation of the results develops from the indicators assessing the overall agricultural production divided into its basic components. Production and cost indicators, operational subsidies,...
An analysis of the Romanian agriculture using quantitative methods
Tudorel ANDREI, Bogdan OANCEA, Marius PROFIROIU
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(2):85-92 | DOI: 10.17221/2609-AGRICECON
The paper presents a series of models used to identify the characteristics of the Romanian agriculture in the 1960-2006 period of time. Using econometric methods we try to identify significant differences between agricultural productions obtained before and after the year of the Revolution. Thus, following the dynamics of time series considered we identified two different time periods. The first is located before the 1989 revolution, and the second in the period that followed it. The two periods are different compared to the evolution of the considered indicators.
Changes in agricultural land ownership in Poland in the period of the market economy
Jerzy BAŃSKI
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(2):93-101 | DOI: 10.17221/18/2010-AGRICECON
The article concentrates on the changes of ownership ongoing in Polish agriculture in the period 1989-2004. Since Polish agriculture was above all private in nature throughout the period of communism, the changes in question were actually more limited than in other Central and East European Countries (CEEC). Those that have taken place have first and foremost involved the privatisation of the old State Farms, whose assets were taken over by individually-owned farms or commercial-law companies, with the intermediation of the Treasury Agricultural Property Agency established for the purpose. A major element of the assets undergoing privatisation was...
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Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(2):102 | DOI: 10.17221/2597-AGRICECON