Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence

Transition in Agriculture – Agricultural Economics in Transition XIV.

11/16/2017 - 11/17/2017

Thursday, 16 November, 2017

9:00     Imre Fertő (CERS IE-HAS/KU/CUB): Introduction

Productivity and Effiency Analysis

9:10     Bakucs Zoltán (CERS IE-HAS): The Impact of Climate Change on the Efficiency of Hungarian Crop Sector

9:50     Lukas Cehura (Czech University of Life Sciences) and Raushan Bokusheva (OECD): Measuring the effect of subsidies on PTE

10:30   Coffee break

10:50   Baráth Lajos (CERS IE-HAS): Productivity Analysis in EU agriculture under consideration of different technologies: A Common Factor Approach

11:30   Natalia Kuosmanen (Natural Resources Institute Finland) and Timo Kuosmanen (Aalto University) How creative destruction of farms affects total factor productivity of Finnish agricultural sector?

12:10   13:10   Lunch break

Food Chain Issues

13:10   Xavier Gellynck (Ghent University, Division of Agri-Food Marketing and Chain Management): Strenghtening the farmers' position in the chain through increased market transparency: Lessons from the literature

13:50   Adrienn Molnár (CERS IE-HAS/ Ghent University, Division of Agri-Food Marketing and Chain Management): Development approaches for agribusiness SMEs for improving their supply chain performance

14:30   Štefan Bojnec (University of Primorska): Drivers of Farm Income Risk in Slovenia

15:10   Coffee break

15:30   Aldona Stalgiené (Lithuanian Insitute of Agricultural Economics): Dairy farmers' business strategies in Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia and Netherlands

Agricultural Trade

16:10   Alessandro Olper (University of Milan):  Standards, Trade Margins and Product Quality: Firm-level Evidence from Peru

16:50   Imre Fertő (CERS IE-HAS): Extensive and Intensive Margin of Agri-Food Trade in the European Union

19:00   Conference dinner

Friday, 17 November, 2017

 

Rural Development

9:00     Joseph Molnar (Auburn University): Tax Credits and Loan Programs for Community Facilities and Economic Development: Complex Tools, Limited Local Capacity, and Barriers to Participation

9:40     Jan Fałkowski (University of Warsaw): Looking at land inequality through the lenses of informal institutions: some evidence on religious participation in Poland

10:20   Coffee break

10:40   Sara Brown(HAS/ United States-Hungarian Fulbright Independent Researcher) The Social Economy on the Rise in Rural Washington State USA

11:20   Katarzyna Zawalińska (Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development - Polish Academy of Sciences): The role of CAP in land-use conflicts: regional analysis for Poland

12:00   13:00   Lunch break

13:00   Błażej Jendrzejewski (Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development - Polish Academy of Sciences): Integration of natural capital with the System of National Accounts for CGE modelling

13:40   Chris High (University of Lund) and Gusztáv Nemes (MTA KRTK KTI): M&E and social learning in rural development:  A theoretical framework and three case studies – pt 1

14:20   Chris High (University of Lund) and Gusztáv Nemes (MTA KRTK KTI): M&E and social learning in rural development:  A theoretical framework and three case studies – pt 2

15:00   Imre Fertő (CERS IE-HAS/KE/CUB): Conference closure

18:00   Party

 

 

 

 

 

Helyszín: 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4. Ground Floor room K 0.13-K0.14

Economics with policy - International seminar series

11/23/2017

Lecture:

Matt V. Leduc (Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Aix-Marseille Université / GREQAM): Networked markets and relational contracts

Helyszín: new venue! - Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4, 1097, ground floor room 13-14

Economics with policy - International seminar series

11/24/2017

Ugo Fratesi (Politecnico di Milano)
Border regions in Europe: obstacles, (in)efficiency and compensation
(joint work with Roberta Capello and Andrea Caragliu)
Abstract: Border regions have special situation within EU Member states, since along borders run barriers of different physical institutional and cultural nature. Therefore, border regions have been the target of cross-border policies to reduce these obstacles and fully exploit their growth potential. The seminar starts by identifying whether EU border regions suffer more from inefficiencies or underendowment because of the border, then analyses which types of obstacles are obstructing the exploitation of which growth assets, finally it explores the possibility of compensating underendowment or internal inefficiency with increased internal or external efficiency.

Helyszín: 7621 Pécs, Papnövelde u. 22. - Institute for Regional Studies, conference room

KTI Seminar

11/30/2017

Lecture:

Szell Michael
Exploring quantitatively sharing benefits and inequalities in urban transportation

We introduce the notion of shareability network, which allows us to model the collective benefits of sharing rides as a function of passenger inconvenience, and to efficiently compute optimal sharing strategies on massive datasets. We first apply this framework to a dataset of millions of taxi trips taken in New York City, showing that with increasing but still relatively low passenger discomfort, cumulative trip length can be cut by 40% or more. This benefit comes with reductions in service cost, emissions, and with split fares, hinting toward a wide passenger acceptance of such a shared service. Shareability as a function of trip density saturates fast, suggesting effectiveness of the taxi sharing system also in cities with much sparser taxi fleets or when willingness to share is low. Applying the same framework to a diverse set of world cities, we find that a natural rescaling collapses all shareability curves onto a single, universal curve. We explain this scaling law theoretically with a simple model that predicts the potential for ride sharing in any city, using a few basic urban quantities and no adjustable parameters. Accurate extrapolations of this type will help planners, transportation companies, and society at large to shape a sustainable path for urban growth. Finally, we present “What the Street!?” (whatthestreet.moovellab.com), an online platform for the interactive exploration of city-wide mobility spaces. The aim of What the Street!? is to facilitate the intuitive exploration of (wasted) mobility space in cities, exploring to which extent space is distributed unevenly between different modes of transportation. We demonstrate how this data visualization of re-ordered city spaces can effectively inform relevant stakeholders and the public about large-scale reductions of parking spaces in future scenarios of wide-spread car-sharing.

Helyszín: MTA Humán Tudományok Kutatóháza, Budapest, Tóth Kálmán utca 4. földszinti előadóterem