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| Title: | Farm Structural Change in German Regions - An Empirical Analysis using Micro and Macro Data |
| Authors: | Zimmermann, Andrea
Heckelei, Thomas |
| Keywords: | Farm structure
Markov model
Germany |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | General economic developments as well as
recent fundamental changes in the Common
Agricultural Policy will likely impact significantly on the
European farm structure. Although a decline of total
farm numbers continues to be the general observation,
important differences occur across regions and farm
types. These differentiated developments and their
determinants are of high relevance for policy impact
assessment at the regional level. The main objective of
the analysis provided in this paper is to empirically
identify whether regionally specific characteristics
account for differences in regional farm structure
development. This is exemplarily shown for German
FADN regions. As methodological approach a combined
time series, cross-sectional Markov chain analysis is
applied. The non-stationary Markov model is estimated
via generalised cross-entropy estimation technique with
the transition probabilities being represented as
multinomial logit functions of explanatory variables and
their coefficients. Prior information on the transition
probabilities is obtained from observed single farm
movements of the FADN sample. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/44049 |
| Institution/Association: | European Association of Agricultural Economists>2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium |
| Total Pages: | 4 |
| Collections: | 2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium
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