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Prof. Dr. VOLKER HOFFMANN, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften des Agrarbereichs, Professur für Landwirtschaftliche Kommunikations- und Beratungslehre, Universität Hohenheim (430), D-70593 Stuttgart
This paper sets out to develop an economic framework for ex post evaluations of agri-environmental schemes. We begin by developing a non-parametric model for estimating farm-level environmental efficiency scores. We then use this efficiency framework to devise a set of economic criteria for evaluating agri-environmental schemes. One key criterion is whether an environmental scheme has…
Zum Ausscheiden landwirtschaftlicher Betriebe: Eine empirische Analyse
Published: 01.05.1999 Authors: Christoph R. Weiss
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