Agricultural Economics, 2011 (vol. 57), issue 9

Competitiveness of the Czech food industry

Marie PUTIĆOVÁ, Josef MEZERA

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(9):413-421 | DOI: 10.17221/89/2010-AGRICECON  

The study is engaged in the problems of competitiveness and the performance of the Czech food industry. Both these attributes are evaluated in the framework the domestic manufacturing sector and market, as well as from the point of view of the relations in foreign trade, that means in context with the European and world market. The study applies in the frame of methodology the economic model based on input-output analysis in CZ conditions. In majority of assessed indicators, there were used databases from 2000-2008, i.e. the period before and after the accession to the EU. The outcome of the study is the evaluation of the situation in the macroeconomic...

Analysis of external and internal influences on CR agrarian foreign trade

Josef VOLOŠIN, Luboš SMUTKA, Richard SELBY

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(9):422-435 | DOI: 10.17221/137/2010-AGRICECON  

The agrarian sector has a non-substitutable position in most world economics - including the CR. From the viewpoint of functioning of own agrarian trade it can be stated that the CR is roughly self-sufficient by 70-80% in products of a competitive nature. In case of products of a non-competitive nature, the CR shows almost zero self-sufficiency. It means that agrarian foreign trade occupies a non-substitutable position in the CR economy (at least from the export point of view). In the light of our own trade flows, the CR performs as an active exporter and importer (about 100 billion and 130 billion CZK respectively, in 2009). However, together with...

Climate change in the context of global environmental governance possibilities

Eva CIHELKOVÁ

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(9):436-448 | DOI: 10.17221/35/2011-AGRICECON  

Recent information campaigns of media and the ongoing substantive discussions of experts have been more and more devoted to the climate change issue and its impacts that could affect our future and threaten the sustainable and balanced development of the planet Earth. However, the categorical apparatus as presented at the above mentioned events is not always used correctly and the same is true about the objective interpretation of the very nature of the processes. Also the explanations of realistic options of governance to mitigate and streamline the effects associated with climate variability in order to achieve the least possible damage of global...

The policy arrangements of financial deepening in rural China --

Lin HE, Calum G. Turvey, Dongsheng LIAO

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(9):449-456 | DOI: 10.17221/70/2010-AGRICECON  

Financial deepening has been successfully tested by many countries, which is also an optimal developing track in practice in rural China. Chinese government has implemented a variety of policies to alter the finance environment in rural areas to get to the financial deepening. These policies include making the multiform financial institutions, making a fair legal environment and clarified property rights. Based on the McKinnon-Shaw model, we test whether there exits the financial deepening in rural China to judge the policy efficiency and we find that no proof can demonstrate the financial deepening in rural China, which means policies of the financial...

Productivity of Estonian dairy farms decline after the accession to the European Union

Nikolay VASILIEV, Elsa SUUSTER, Helis LUIK, Rando VÄRNIK, Eduard MATVEEV, Alar ASTOVER

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(9):457-463 | DOI: 10.17221/122/2010-AGRICECON  

The aim of the study was to analyze the productivity change of Estonian dairy farms before and after the accession to the European Union. The Malmquist productivity index was measured and separated into the technical and efficiency change using the data envelopment analysis for the pre-accession period (years 2001-2003) and the post-accession period (2004-2006). Second-stage regression was applied to estimate the possible variables determining the productivity and efficiency change. Productivity growth of Estonian dairy farms was negative for both observed periods; the mean annual growth rate of the Malmquist productivity index was -0.7% in 2001-2003...

For the seventieth birthday of Prof. Ing. Jan Hron, DrSc., dr. h. c.

M. Svatoš

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2011, 57(9):464-466 | DOI: 10.17221/169/2011-AGRICECON