Jason Hartell

Agriculture and East-West european integration

The implications of European Union accession for Central and Eastern European agricultural markets, trade, goverment budgets and the macroeconomy, Martin Banse, Wolfgang Munch and Stefan Tangermann Baltic agricultural competitiveness and prospects under European Union accession, Klaus Frohberg and Monika Hartmann the competitiveness of Czech agricultural producers in an integrated European market, Tomas Ratinger the effect of EU accession on Polands agricultural markets and budgetary expenditures Slovenias accession to the European Union - implications for the agricultural sector, Stefan Bojnec and Wolfgang Munch integration with the European Union and the competitiveness of the Bulgarian agro-food sector, Matthew Gorton and Sophia Davidova agriculture and integration - trade liberalization versus migration, Alexander H. Sarris from central planning to the common agricultural policy - analysis and political economy aspects of agricultural policy in Central and Eastern Europe, Jason G. Hartell and Johann F.M. Swinnen eastward European Union enlargement and the future of the CAP, Ewa Rabinowicz the impact of Central and Eastern Europe joining the common agricultural policy on agricultural protection in the European Union - a political economy perspective, Harry de Gorter and Jan Pokrivcak.

Pricing Benefit Externalities of Soil Carbon Sequestration in Multifunctional Agriculture

“Multifunctionality†emphasizes the benefit externality properties of nonfood products that coincide with agricultural commodity production, some of which also have public-good properties. However, determining the willingness to pay for local benefit externalities is seen as necessary but daunting. This paper pursues the idea that the valuation process might first start by estimating the incentives required to supply various levels of a benefit externality. With the use of carbon sequestration through the adoption of no-till cultivation as an example of a multifunctional benefit externality, mathematical programming is used to derive representative price schedules. The implication for incentive prices are examined in light of risk aversion.