Economic Consequences of Urbanisation and Urbanisation Policy in China (2009)
Josef C Brada, Belton M Fleisher, Scott Rozelle, Johan Swinnen
Distortions to agricultural incentives in Europe's transition economies (2008)
The main purpose of this study is to assess the changing landscape of agricultural protection and taxation patterns in the region. The study is based on the EU-10 sample, plus Turkey, as well as...
Distortions to agricultural incentives in Europe's transition economies (2008)
The main purpose of this study is to assess the changing landscape of agricultural protection and taxation patterns in the region. The study is based on the EU-10 sample, plus Turkey, as well as...
Distortions to agricultural incentives in Europe's transition economies (2008)
The main purpose of this study is to assess the changing landscape of agricultural protection and taxation patterns in the region. The study is based on the EU-10 sample, plus Turkey, as well as...
Skating on thin ice: rule changes and team strategies in the NHL (2004)
Banerjee, Anurag N., Swinnen, Johan, Weersink, Alfons
In an effort to stimulate a more exciting and entertaining style of play, the National Hockey Association (NHL) changed the rewards associated with the results of overtime games. Under the new rules,...
The debate on agricultural policy in the EU has been very lively and politically prominent over the past months. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU has undergone major changes since it...
Kyle, Steven C., Swinnen, Johan
The theory of contestable markets is used to derive predictions of the extent to which agricultural commodities behave as traded or nontraded goods. These predictions are confirmed with Zairian data...
The overall objectives of our proposed paper is to: (a) systematically document the post-reform trends in agricultural performance in Asia, Europe, and the Former Soviet Union; (b) identify the main...
On the Political Economy of Land Reforms in the Former Soviet Union
This paper provides a set of hypotheses to explain differences in the procedures and progress of land reforms among FSU countries. The first factor is the historical legacy of the countries and their...
The Impact of Aid on Economic Growth in Transition Economies: An Empirical Study
This paper assesses econometrically the contribution of aid to output growth in a panel of twenty transition countries over nine years (1989-1997). The study finds a positive and statistically...
Land Rental Markets and Household Farms in Transition: Theory and Evidence from Hungary
Johan Swinnen, Liesbet Vranken
This paper analyses the determinants of household farms’ participation in land rental markets in transition countries and what affects their access to land through rental markets. We derive several...
Rural Poverty in Transition Countries
This paper uses new poverty data based on household level surveys to analyze changes in rural poverty and rural-urban poverty differences in 23 transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and...
Causes of Efficiency Change in Transition: Theory and Cross-Country Survey Evidence from Agriculture
Johan Swinnen, Liesbet Vranken
transition agriculture, production efficiency, reforms
Bart Minten, Lalaina Randrianarison, Johan Swinnen
High-value agriculture for exports is increasingly important in developing countries. In a case study of contract farming for exports of vegetables from Madagascar, strong spillover effects of these...
Property Rights Imperfections, Asset Allocation, and Welfare: Co-Ownership in Bulgaria
Liesbet Vranken, Karen Macours, Nivelin Noev, Johan Swinnen
This paper analyzes how imperfections of property rights affect allocation of assets and welfare, using micro-survey data from Bulgaria. Co-ownership of assets is widespread in many countries due to...
Political economy of agricultural policy
De Gorter, Harry, Swinnen, Johan, B. L. Gardner, G. C. Rausser
Explanations are provided for why governments do as they do in agriculture. Alternative frameworks are assessed to explain government policy including collective action and politician-voter...
Skating on Thin Ice: Rule Changes and Team Strategies in the NHL
Banerjee, Anurag, Swinnen, Johan, Weersink, Alfons
In an effort to stimulate a more exciting and entertaining style of play, the National Hockey Association (NHL) changed the rewards associated with the results of overtime games. Under the new rules,...
Investment and Contract Enforcement in Transition: Evidence from Hungary
Contract enforcement problems are a significant constraint on investment and growth, especially so in developing and transition economies. Evidence on these effects is mostly limited to case studies....
Human Capital, Market Imperfections, Poverty, and Migration: Evidence from Albania
Etleva Germenji, Johan Swinnen
The most dramatic recent immigration in Europe is the influx of more than 700,000 Albanians, about a quarter of the total Albanian workforce, in the 1990s. The vast majority migrated illegally. This...
Does a sudden death liven up the game? Rules, incentives, and strategy in football
Anurag Banerjee, Johan Swinnen
In an effort to stimulate more attractive football, the international football association FIFA, has recently introduced the "sudden death" or "golden goal" rule for games going into extra time play....
Kyle, Steven C, Swinnen, Johan
The theory of contestable markets is used to derive predictions of the extent to which agricultural commodities behave as traded or non-traded goods. These predictions are confirmed with Zairian data...
REFORMS AND EFFICIENCY CHANGE IN TRANSITION AGRICULTURE
Swinnen, Johan, Vranken, Liesbet
Studies on efficiency changes in transition agriculture yield mixed results. This paper develops both a theoretical model of efficiency changes during transition and uses a unique set of...
Vranken, Liesbet, Noev, Nivelin, Swinnen, Johan
Land Economics/Use,
Reforms and Efficiency Change in Transition Agriculture
Swinnen, Johan, Vranken, Liesbet
Studies on efficiency changes in transition agriculture yield mixed results. This paper develops both a theoretical model and an empirical analysis of how distribution of efficiency scores changes...
CAN PRICE SUPPORTS NEGATE THE SOCIAL GAINS FROM PUBLIC RESEARCH EXPENDITURES IN AGRICULTURE?
De Gorter, Harry, Swinnen, Johan
The burgeoning literature on how the benefits from research may be negative for a given price support arbitrarily ignores the costs of price supports for a given level of research. Furthermore, the...
A POSITIVE THEORY OF AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION
Agricultural and Food Policy, Political Economy,
Reforms and Efficiency Change in Transition Agriculture
Swinnen, Johan, Vranken, Liesbet
Studies on efficiency changes in transition agriculture yield mixed results. This paper develops both a theoretical model and an empirical analysis of how distribution of efficiency scores changes...
Land and Happiness: Land Distribution and Subjective Well-Being in Moldova
Van Landeghem, Bert, Swinnen, Johan, Vranken, Liesbet
The distribution of land rights is a very important economic and political issue, and it played a central role in the transition processes in Europe and Asia. This paper analyzes the impact of the...
Property Rights Imperfections, Asset Allocation, and Welfare: Co-Ownership in Bulgaria
Vranken, Liesbet, MacOurs, Karen, Noev, Nivelin, Swinnen, Johan
This paper analyzes how imperfections of property rights affect allocation of assets and welfare, using micro-survey data from Bulgaria. Co-ownership of assets is widespread in many countries due to...
The Impact of Property Rights Imperfections on Resource Allocation: Co-Ownership of Land in Bulgaria
Vranken, Liesbet, MacOurs, Karen, Noev, Nivelin, Swinnen, Johan
This paper analyzes how imperfections of property rights affect allocation of assets and welfare, using micro-survey data from Bulgaria. Co-ownership of assets is widespread in many countries due to...
Causes of Efficiency Change in Transition: Theory and Cross-Country Survey Evidence from Agriculture
Vranken, Iesbet, Swinnen, Johan
Studies on efficiency changes in transition agriculture yield mixed results. This paper develops both a theoretical model and an empirical analysis of how distribution of efficiency scores changes...
CHANGES IN AGRICULTURAL MARKETS IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES
Liefert, William, Swinnen, Johan
Economic reform in the transition economies of the former Soviet bloc has transformed the volume and mix of these economies' agricultural production, consumption, and trade. Output drops in most...
Spillovers from Globalization on Land Use: Evidence from Madagascar
Minten, Bart, Randrianarison, Lalaina, Swinnen, Johan
The effect of globalization on the environment and natural resource use in developing countries is hotly debated. We contribute to this debate through the analysis of primary data collected with...
Vranken, Liesbet, MacOurs, Karen, Noev, Nivelin, Swinnen, Johan
This study used a unique 2003 survey dataset to analyse the developments in land use and exchange in Bulgaria. The survey analysis yields several results. Land is highly fragmented in Bulgaria which...
Political Economy of Agricultural Distortions in Transition Countries of Asia and Europe
Rozelle, Scott, Swinnen, Johan
The paper analyzes the political and institutional factors which are behind the dramatic changes in distortions to agricultural incentives in the transition countries in East Asia (China and...
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Distorted incentives, agricultural and trade policy reforms, national agricultural development, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade, F13, F14, Q17, Q18,
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europeâs Transition Economies
Distorted incentives, agricultural and trade policy reforms, national agricultural development, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade, F13, F14, Q17, Q18,
Economic Consequences of Urbanisation and Urbanisation Policy in China
Josef C Brada, Belton M Fleisher, Scott Rozelle, Johan Swinnen
Introduction to the symposium on agriculture in transition
FLEISHER, Belton M., BRADA, Josef, ROZELLE, Scott, SWINNEN, Johan
Transition Economies Agriculture China Central and Eastern Europe
The political economy of relief aid allocation: evidence from Madagascar.
Francken, Nathalie, Minten, Bart, Swinnen, Johan
This paper studies the political economy of relief aid allocation using empirical evidence from relief programs after a major cyclone (Gafilo) hit Madagascar in March 2004. Relief was provided by the...
A theory of standards-driven rural development.
Swinnen, Johan, Rozelle, S., Xiang, T., Vandemoortele, Thijs
Pokrivcak, Jan, Crombez, Christophe, Swinnen, Johan
We develop a formal model of EU decision-making on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The model is used to evaluate under what conditions CAP reform occurs and what the influence of the European...
Mass medai and public policy: global evidence from agricultural policies.
Olper, Alessandro, Swinnen, Johan
Mass media plays a crucial role in information distribution and thus in the political market and public policy making. Theory predicts that information provided by mass media reflects the...
Swinnen, Johan, Vandeplas, Anneleen, Maertens, Miet
Thirty years ago, a vast share of the poor and middle income countries were heavily statecontrolled. The effects of the liberalizations in the 1980s and 1990s differed strongly between regions in...
Trade, development, and the political economy of public standards.
Swinnen, Johan, Vandemoortele, Thijs
This paper presents a political economy model of public standards in an open economy model. We use the model to derive the political optimum and to analyze different factors that have an influence on...
Swinnen, Johan, Dries, Liesbeth, Noev, Nivelin
Investment; Investments; Working; Foreign investment; Supermarkets; Restructuring; Supply chains; Supply chain; Sector;
The development of rural land markets in transition countries.
Swinnen, Johan, Vranken, Liesbet
Country; Market; Markets;
Growth in high-value export markets in sub-Saharan Africa and its development implications.
Maertens, Miet, Minten, Bart, Swinnen, Johan
During the past decades the global food system changed dramatically with increased trade in high-value food products, increased exports from developing countries, increased consolidation and...
Globalization, agricultural development and rural welfare.
Swinnen, Johan, Beerlandt, Hannelore, Dries, Liesbeth
Globalization; Welfare;
On the political economy of food standards.
Swinnen, Johan, Vandemoortele, Thijs
This paper presents a general political economy model of standards. We use the model to derive politically optimal standards and then analyze how various factors affect this political equilibrium....
Gender and modern supply chains in developing countries.
Maertens, Miet, Swinnen, Johan
The rapid spread of modern supply chains in developing countries is profoundly changing the way food is produced and traded. In this paper we examine the gender implications in modern supply chains....
Rich consumers and poor producers: quality and rent distribution in global value chains.
Swinnen, Johan, Vandeplas, Anneleen
In recent years, quality standards have become crucial for developing countries’ agricultural production systems in gaining access to high-value markets abroad or at home. High-value supply...
Maertens, Miet, Swinnen, Johan
Coordination; Country;
Global Retail Chains, International Trade and Developing Country Farmers:Evidence from Madagascar.
Minten, B, Randrianarison, L, Swinnen, Johan
Global retail companies (“supermarketsâ€) have an increasing influence on developing countries, through foreign investments and/or through the imposition of their private standards. The...
Land markets and household farms in transition: Theory and evidence from Hungary.
Vranken, Liesbet, Swinnen, Johan
Market; Markets; Theory;
The political economy of the 2003 reform of the common agricultural policy.
The 2003 reform of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) under Commissioner Fischler was the most radical in the history of the CAP. This paper analyzes the causes and...
Quality and inclusion of small producers in value chains: a theoretical note.
Vandemoortele, Thijs, Rozelle, Scott, Swinnen, Johan, Xiang, Tao
This paper develops a formal theory of the endogenous process of the introduction of high quality products in developing countries. Initial differences in income and capital and transaction costs are...
Standards as barriers and catalysts for trade and poverty reduction.
Maertens, Miet, Swinnen, Johan
The importance of food standards in global agricultural trade has increased strongly, but the effects are uncertain. Several studies argue that these standards imposed by high-income countries...
Contracting, competition, and rent distribution in commodity value chains.
Swinnen, Johan, Vandeplas, Anneleen
Competition; Distribution; Value; Governance; Coordination;
Human capital, market imperfections, poverty, and migration: Evidence from Albania.
Germenji, Etleva, Swinnen, Johan
Human capital; Market;
Trade, Food Standards and Poverty: The Case of High-Value Vegetable Exports from Senegal.
Maertens, Miet, Swinnen, Johan
Agricultural supply chains are changing globally with pervasive food standards and increased vertical coordination. The impact of these changes for developing countries and for small farmers in those...
Agrifood industry transformation and farmers in developing countries.
Reardon, T., Barrett, C.B., Berdegue, J.A., Swinnen, Johan
In this paper, Thomas Reardon, Christopher Barrett, Julio Berdegué and Jo Swinnen review existing literature on developing country trends in agrifood industry transformation and its impact on...
Quality and Inclusion of Small Producers in Value Chains: A Theoretical Note.
Vandemoortele, Thijs, Rozelle, Scott, Swinnen, Johan, Xiang, Tao
This paper develops a formal theory of the endogenous process of the introduction of high quality products in developing countries. Initial differences in income and capital and transaction costs are...
The dramatic transition from Communism to market economies across Asia and Europe started in the Chinese countryside in the 1970s. Since then more than a billion of people, many of them very poor,...
Reforms, globalization and endogenous agricultural structures.
In this paper I draw lessons from two quasi-natural experiments (the transition process in former Communist countries and the rapid globalization of food chains) on the optimality of farms and...
Political Reforms and Public Policies: Evidence from Agricultural Protection.
Olper, A., Falkowski, J., Swinnen, Johan
This paper studies the effect of political regime transitions on public policy using a dataset on global agricultural distortions over 50 years (including data from 74 developing and developed...
Trade, standards and poverty: Evidence from Senegal.
Maertens, Miet, Swinnen, Johan
In the debate on trade and poverty it is argued that standards act as trade barriers and cause marginalization of the poor. This paper quantifies income and poverty effects of high-standards trade...
Introduction to the symposium on agriculture in transition.
Fleisher, B.M., Brada, J., Rozelle, S., Swinnen, Johan
Josef Brada, Belton Fleisher, Scott Rozelle and Jo Swinnen introduce the symposium on the economic and social implications of urbanization in China, published in Comparative Economic Studies. The...
Dries, L., Germenji, E., Noev, N., Swinnen, Johan
The combination of transition and globalization since the early 1990s has caused dramatic changes in the dairy chains in Central and Eastern Europe. This paper uses survey evidence from several...
Media, monitoring, and capture of public funds: Evidence from Madagascar.
Francken, Nathalie, Minten, B., Swinnen, Johan
This paper investigates the role of media and monitoring in reducing capture. We analyze data on capture of public expenditures by local officials in Madagascar. Our findings indicate important...
How can the impact of foreign direct investment on human development be measured and regulated?.
De Schutter, Olivier, Swinnen, Johan, Wouters, Jan
The lowering of barriers to foreign direct investment and waves of privatisation have caused amounts of FDI to increase greatly in recent decades, allowing enormous sums of money to flow into certain...