Agricultural Economics, 2016 (vol. 62), issue 2

Impact of the changes in excise duties on households in the Czech RepublicOriginal Paper

Petr JANSKÝ

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(2):51-61 | DOI: 10.17221/31/2015-AGRICECON  

Excise duties are an important source of the government revenue and their rates change relatively often in the Czech Republic. Reforms of excise duties change the prices of goods, a change to which the households respond by adjusting their expenditures. In the contribution, there are used detailed Czech Statistical Office data and the estimates of own- and cross-price and income elasticities for the individual households to create a microeconomic simulation model that enables to simulate the impact of changes in excise duties on the households' demands. There is shown the distributional impact of the current excise duties and then the impact of the...

An analysis of the efficiency in a sample of small Italian farms part of the FADN datasetOriginal Paper

Nicola GALLUZZO

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(2):62-70 | DOI: 10.17221/37/2015-AGRICECON  

Italian farms have an average surface lower than 10 hectares and they are predominately scattered in the upland rural areas. The most important aspect of small family farms is to protect the rural environment against the socio-economic marginalization of rural territories and reducing the out-migration from the countryside as well. Since the 1960s, the European Union has arranged a microeconomic survey on a sample of farms aimed at estimating the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy strategies on farmers called the Farm Accountancy Data Network or the FADN. The purpose of the analysis was to assess by a quantitative approach using the FADN dataset...

Full operating cycle influence on the food and beverages processing firms characteristicsOriginal Paper

Grzegorz MICHALSKI

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(2):71-77 | DOI: 10.17221/72/2015-AGRICECON  

The aim of the study is to determine the rules governing the modern cash management in food and beverages processing enterprises with a full operating cycle with a particular emphasis on environmental conditions influencing enterprises. Having a full operating cycle is defined as a situation in which the small or medium enterprise has a stock of materials or raw materials, which it then as a result of the technological process converts into the finished products, offers them for sale through both cash sales and sales on the basis of the use of trade credit receivables. Used in this definition, full operating cycle consists of the conversion of inventories...

Maximum residue limits and agrifood exports of China: choosing the best estimation techniqueOriginal Paper

Muhammad ISHAQ, Qing PING, Zahoorul HAQ, Chongguang LI, Chen TONG

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(2):78-92 | DOI: 10.17221/17/2015-AGRICECON  

The main aim of the article is to show the response of the Maximum Residue Limits adopted by importing countries on exports of the selected food commodities from China. The study estimates the gravity model using the Ordinary Least Squares, Poisson and the Negative Binomial Regression estimators. According to the results, the Maximum Residue Limits has a trade enhancing effect on exports of the selected food commodities from China. This trade enhancing impact may be due to the current government policies to put a cut on the food safety issues, to ensure safe food for all and adopting a protectionist policy in terms of the Maximum Residues Limits for...

Economic growth in the development economyOriginal Paper

Vladimír JENÍČEK

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(2):93-98 | DOI: 10.17221/234/2014-AGRICECON  

Development must be conceived of as a multidimensional process involving major changes in social structures, popular attitudes and national institutions, as well as the acceleration of economic growth, the reduction of inequality and the eradication of poverty. Development in its essence must represent the whole gamut of change by which the entire social system tuned to the diverse basic needs and desires of the individuals and social groups within the system moves away from a condition of life widely perceived as unsatisfactory toward a situation or condition of life regarded as materially and spiritually better.