Foundations of agricultural market analysis and agricultural policy

Cover -- Title -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Concept, delimitation and tasks of the "agricultural market analysis and agricultural policy" -- 1.2 Structure of the book -- Part I: Foundations of Agricultural Market Analysis -- Chapter 2: Demand for Agricultural Products and Agricultural Inputs -- 2.1 Classification of Agricultural Products -- 2.2 The demand for food from conventional agricultural production at the consumer level in the context of search goods -- 2.2.1 Importance of consumer behavior -- 2.2.2 Determinants of demand for rational behavior -- 2.3 Special characteristics of food demand for conventionally produced products, in the case of experience and credence goods -- 2.4 Special characteristics of demand for ecologically produced food -- 2.5 Demand for means of production of agricultural origin -- 2.6 Policy issues -- 2.6.1 Information problems -- 2.6.2 Divergence between private and social marginal willingness to pay -- 2.6.3 Problem of demand for environmental goods -- 2.6.4 Divergence between market prices and macro economic shadow prices -- 2.6.5 Transaction costs -- Chapter 3: The Supply of Agricultural Products -- 3.1 Determinants of the Supply of Agricultural Products -- 3.2 The Concept of the Supply Curve in the Objective of Profit Maximization -- 3.3 Elasticity analysis -- 3.4 Determinants of change in the supply over time -- 3.5 Policy issues -- 3.5.1 Alternative targets -- 3.5.2 Target restrictions -- 3.5.3 Relevance of transaction costs -- 3.5.4 Divergences in production -- Chapter 4: Agricultural price formation -- 4.1 Classification of markets -- 4.2 Product and factor pricing with complete competition -- 4.3 Product and factor pricing in monopolies -- 4.4 Determinants of price relations under competitive conditions -- 4.4.1 Determinants of the development of product price relations.