Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: W. Heijman Author-Name: T. Koch Title: The allocation of financial resources of the EU Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund during the period 2007-2013 Abstract: 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. Keywords: Regional policy, Structural Funds, Cohesion Fund, budget allocation Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 49-56 Volume: 57 Issue: 2 Year: 2011 DOI: 10.17221/139/2010-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/139/2010-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201102-0001.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:57:y:2011:i:2:id:139-2010-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vladimír JENÍČEK Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of International Relations, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Title: International debts of developing countries Abstract: 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 the global problems (for example, at present very strongly with the environmental problems), the complex international co-operation climate. Keywords: debts, developing countries, payment ability, debt indicators Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 57-63 Volume: 57 Issue: 2 Year: 2011 DOI: 10.17221/120/2010-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/120/2010-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201102-0002.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:57:y:2011:i:2:id:120-2010-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Štefan BOJNEC Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Management, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia Author-Name: Imre FERTŐ Author-Workplace-Name: Corvinus University of Budapest and Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Title: Information and communication infrastructure development and agro-food trade Abstract: 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 than for food products. The improved information and communication infrastructure development improves information and reduces trade transaction costs. Keywords: communication infrastructure, agro-food trade, adapted gravity model, OECD countries Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 64-70 Volume: 57 Issue: 2 Year: 2011 DOI: 10.17221/82/2010-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/82/2010-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201102-0003.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:57:y:2011:i:2:id:82-2010-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Václav Bašek Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information, Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: Josef Kraus Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Comparison of selected indicators of farms in the EU member states Abstract: 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, gross and net added value per one hectare of agricultural land, or per one AWU and other derived indicators are analysed. Keywords: international comparison 2004-2007, farms' economic results, selected EU countries, the FADN system, effectiveness of agricultural holdings Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 71-84 Volume: 57 Issue: 2 Year: 2011 DOI: 10.17221/21/2010-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/21/2010-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201102-0004.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:57:y:2011:i:2:id:21-2010-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tudorel ANDREI Author-Workplace-Name: The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania Author-Name: Bogdan OANCEA Author-Workplace-Name: Nicolae Titulescu University, Bucharest, Romania Author-Name: Marius PROFIROIU Author-Workplace-Name: The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania Title: An analysis of the Romanian agriculture using quantitative methods Abstract: 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. Keywords: ADF test, regression models, agriculture evolution Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 85-92 Volume: 57 Issue: 2 Year: 2011 DOI: 10.17221/2609-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/2609-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201102-0005.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:57:y:2011:i:2:id:2609-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jerzy BAŃSKI Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland Title: Changes in agricultural land ownership in Poland in the period of the market economy Abstract: 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 agricultural land. The size of the ownership change has varied from region to region. In the West and North, where more than half of all farmland was in the State Farm hands to 1989, there was a marked increase in the share of land under private ownership. On the other hand, in Central and Eastern Poland, the changes were very limited, concerning only the transfer of land between private farms. Important reasons accounting for the limited activity on the market for land in this part of Poland include the agrarian overpopulation and the widespread treatment of land as a form of the "insurance policy" against job losses. The ownership changes have further encouraged polarisation where farm size structure is concerned. Farms increased in size in the regions where the large average area has long been a typical feature. In turn, the areas characterised by the excessive agrarian fragmentation have not seen any more major changes in the size structure over the recent period. A detailed analysis of the changes in ownership over the market economy period is preceded by a discussion of the history of land ownership in Polish agriculture, with a particular emphasis being placed on the Communist era. The legal and social bases conditioning ownership change are also discussed. Keywords: land ownership, land use, agriculture, land fragmentation, transformation, Central and Eastern Europe, Poland Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 93-101 Volume: 57 Issue: 2 Year: 2011 DOI: 10.17221/18/2010-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/18/2010-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201102-0006.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:57:y:2011:i:2:id:18-2010-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: editors Title: Corrigendum Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 102 Volume: 57 Issue: 2 Year: 2011 DOI: 10.17221/2597-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/2597-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:57:y:2011:i:2:id:2597-AGRICECON