József Fogarasi

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Obuda University

A vizsgált megyék Románia észak-nyugati részén, az Európai Unió belső határán helyezkednek el és Románia gazdasági félperifiáriáját alkotják, ugyanakkor többnyelvű határrégióként jelentős mértékben vették ki a részüket a munkaképes korú népesség kibocsájtásában. A EU irányába zajló munkaerővándorlást precízen követni meglehetősen nehéz, az elvándor...

The literature on the effectiveness of Agri-Environmental Schemes focuses mainly on the environmental effects; only a few studies have focused on economic aspects. The number of papers that address ecological and economic outcomes simultaneously is even more limited. In this paper, we apply the concept of eco-efficiency to integrate these two facto...

In the countries of the European Union, great importance is attached to urban trees, especially to indoor and outdoor treelines, parks and forests. They are considered both an object of the living world, a landscape element, and at the same time a tool against environment harms. Nowadays, 29.1% of the member states’ population lives in rural areas,...

Eco‐schemes are set to play an important role in the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post‐2022 for the delivery of environmental and climate benefits and enhanced animal welfare. This article surveys current plans for the design of eco‐schemes in fifteen European Union Member States. The number of eco‐scheme measures to be offered...

Az ökoszisztéma állapottól a ténylegesen igénybe vett ökoszisztéma-szolgáltatás értékelésig. A közösségi jelentőségű természeti értékek hosszú távú megőrzését és fejlesztését, valamint az EU biológiai sokféleség stratégia 2020 célkitűzéseinek hazai szintű megvalósítását megalapozó stratégiai vizsgálatok projekt, Ökoszisztéma-szolgáltatások projekte...

This article investigates dairy farm investment behaviour and the presence of soft budget constraints in the dairy farms of Baltic and Central European transition countries-Estonia, Hungary and Slovenia-using individual dairy farm accountancy panel data for the years 2007-2015. The empirical results confirm that gross dairy farm investment is posit...

Az éghajlatváltozás hatására a szélsőséges időjárási jelenségek előfordulása egyre nő. A fokozódó időjárási anomáliák miatt a meteorológiai kockázatok erősödése jellemzi a mezőgazdasági termelést, ezért kiemelten szükséges foglalkozni a kockázatkezelés kérdésével mind termelői, mind pedig szakpolitikai szinten. A klímaváltozás témaköre az Európai U...

This article investigates farm investment behaviour and the presence of soft budget constraints in the agricultural sectors of three Central and Eastern European countries – Estonia, Hungary and Slovenia – using individual farm accountancy panel data for the 2007–2015 period. Gross farm investment is positively associated with gross farm investment...

The aim of this study is to estimate the influence of climate factors on the technical efficiency of Hungarian arable farms. The technical efficiency of farms is affected by several factors such as the technology used, the relative factor abundance, the institutional reforms with the input and output market environment, the farm size and scale econ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of crop insurance among Hungarian crop farmers and the responses to the introduction of the two-scheme risk management system. Specifically, first, it examines the economic and environmental factors affecting the willingness of farmers to contract crop insurance. Second, it reveals the r...

This chapter investigates the emergence of microbreweries in Hungary after 2000. The privatization of the Hungarian beer industry leads to the dominance of the big multinational enterprises. Although in the early phase of the transition the number of microbreweries increased rapidly, their number had declined considerably during analyzed period. Ou...

Hungarian cereal production is situated in the zone of Europe which is most vulnerable to the effects of changes in climatic conditions. The objectives of this paper are to present the calibration and validation of the 4M crop simulation model using farm-level observed representative values, and to estimate the potential yields of winter wheat and...

In this study, both parametric (SFA) and non-parametric (DEA) efficiency approaches were used to analyse the technical efficiency (TE) of Hungarian farms before and after the accession. Slightly different results were obtained with SFA and DEA. After years of decreasing technical efficiency scores, accession seems to have halted the process and pos...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of institutional quality ( IQ ) in exporting and importing countries on agro-food exports from the world's leading emerging economies: Brazil, the Russian Federation, India and China (BRIC countries). Design/methodology/approach – Measuring is based on using the gravity trade model...

Pig farming is one of the strongest polluters of water due to its intensive production and slurry rejection. Several European countries have introduced environmental regulations aiming at reducing the pollution caused by nitrates from agriculture, but not yet Hungary. We investigate how Hungarian pig farms' output and technical efficiency would be...

This paper examines the effects of territorial differentiation of damage to wheat, maize, barley, sunflower and rapeseed production caused by drought and heavy rain. Our study evaluated the differences between LAU1 micro-regions in Hungary in the effects of the weather on agricultural production and found that there are extremely high differences i...

This paper examines the effects of territorial differentiation of damage to wheat, maize, barley, sunfl ower and rapeseed production caused by drought and heavy rain. Our study evaluated the differences between LAU1 micro-regions in Hungary in the effects of the weather on agricultural production and found that there are extremely high differences...

This report presents the results of research conducted within the Multiannual Programme 2011-2014 under the task “National and the EU "rural budget" versus finance and functioning of the Polish agriculture and the national economy”. The 2013 milestone to be achieved within this task was the assessment of the impact of the EU “agricultural budget“ f...

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Agricultural insurance is one of the financial tools that agricultural producers can potentially use to cope with increasing risks in their activity. Experiences accumulated on insurance markets demonstrate that the development of a proper agricultural insurance product can not be reached without a governmental intervention mainly due to the system...

This paper investigates the differences in technical efficiency and productivity change, and the technology gaps, between French and Hungarian farms in the dairy and cereal, oilseed and protein crops (COP) sectors during the period 2001-2007. The analyses were performed with national Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) data and the Data Envelopmen...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the technical efficiency of Hungarian dairy farms between 2001 and 2008 using stochastic frontier analysis. We focus on three specific issues: the impact of the European Union accession, the role of farm organisation and the effect of farm size. Our results highlight the role of farm classification in explain...

Increasing price volatility of agricultural commodities over the last decade has focused a growing body of literature to identify the influencing factors of price variability. We analyze the effect of increasing wheat export from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries to the international wheat market and price volatility. The major wheat producer...

In this paper we analyse and compare various efficiency indicators for a number of European Union (EU) countries: Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands and Sweden. The availability of long period datasets between 1990 and 2006, allow us to concentrate on the long time trends in technical efficiency especially in Old Mem...

Pig farming is one of the strongest polluter of water resources in developed countries, due to its intensive production techniques and slurry rejection. Several countries have already introduced environmental regulations aiming at reducing nitrate and phosphorus waste from pig farming, but not yet Hungary. This paper aims at shedding light on how H...

The main purpose of this deliverable is to use technical efficiency scores obtained with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), based on Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) data, in order to analyse the EU agriculture’s competitiveness. Most often competitiveness of a country’s given agricultural sector is analysed using trade and price data, the linkag...

The main purpose of this deliverable is to use technical efficiency scores obtained with three distinct methods, Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Operational Competitiveness Ranking Analysis (OCRA), based on national Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) data, in order to analyse the impact of European Union (EU)...

Agro-food trade between the BRIC countries has increased. Brazil and China contributed to the rapid increase of agro-food trade. The Russian Federation experienced the stagnating and the most volatile agro-food trade over time. The composition of agro-food trade for the BRIC countries varies by the BEC agro-food trade categories and over time. The...

Pig farming is one of the strongest polluters of water resources due to its intensive production techniques and slurry rejection. Several European countries have already introduced environmental regulations aiming at reducing the pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources, but not yet Hungary. This paper investigates how Hungarian pig f...

In this article the stochastic frontier analysis method is used to evaluate the technical efficiency of Hungarian farms before and after accession to the European Union (EU), and to investigate the efficiency determinants. The results show that EU membership has reversed the pre-accession process of efficiency decrease. But the other side of the co...

We investigate credit market imperfections in Hungarian agriculture. Farmers with low debts and using mainly rented land are liquidity constrained. We find also evidence for the presence of soft budget constraint for high debt and corporate farms.

The paper investigates the difference in technical efficiency and in productivity change, and the technology gaps, between French and Hungarian farms in the dairy and cereal, oilseeds and proteinseeds (COP) sectors during the period 2001-2004. The analyses are performed with national FADN data and the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach under...

The paper investigates the difference in technical efficiency and potential technology gap between French and Hungarian dairy farms during 2001-2006, using Data Envelopment Analysis under each country's respective frontier and under a common frontier (metafrontier). Results indicate that French farms have a more optimal scale of production than Hun...

This paper presents some results of a two-year (2006-2007) research project supported by the French Ministry of Research’s funding program ECONET. One of the project’s objectives was to investigate the determinants of farm technical efficiency in New Member States before and after accession to the European Union, and in particular the role of publi...

The paper investigates the competitiveness of Hungarian and Romanian agri-food products in the European Union by employing the Constant Market Share (CMS) method. The empirical results indicate that the driving force of export increase of agricultural products to the EU markets was the increase of import of these products to the EU (structural effe...

Some argue that the lack of modern agricultural development in the former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe has made cutting-edge biotechnology attractive. However, enthusiasm for planting genetically modified (GM) crops varies greatly in the enlarged European Union (EU) and especially among the New Member States (NMS); the Czech GM...

The paper investigates the competitiveness of Hungarian and Romanian agri-food products in the European Union by employing the Constant Market Share (CMS) method. The empirical results indicate that the driving force of export increase of agricultural products to the EU markets was the increase of import of these products to the EU (structural effe...

This paper takes a new empirical look at the long-standing question of the effect of exchange rate volatility on international trade flows of transition economies in Eastern Europe by studying the case of Romanian agricultural export to its export destination countries between 1999 and 2008. Based on a gravity model that controls for other factors...

The paper investigates the difference in technical efficiency and technology between French and Hungarian farms in dairy and cereal, oilseed and protein seed (COP) sectors during 2001-2004. The analyses is performed with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) under separate and common frontiers. Results indicate that Hungarian dairy farmers are more clust...

The paper investigates the difference in technical efficiency, productivity and technology between French and Hungarian dairy farms, in 2001 and 2002, using Data Envelopment Analysis with separate and a common frontier. Results indicate that Hungarian farmers are more clustered to their own frontier than French farms are, but French farms are, on t...

A tanulmány ökonometriai módszerekkel vizsgálja a hitelpiaci tökéletlenségeket a magyar mezőgazdaságban a 2001 és 2005 közötti idõszakra. Eredményeink megeősítik a hitelpiaci tökéletlenség létét az általunk vizsgált teljes mintában. Az alacsony hitelállománnyal rendelkezõ gazdaságoknak, amelyek főként bérelt földön gazdálkodnak, finanszírozási korl...

This paper takes a new empirical look at the long-standing question of the effect of exchange rate volatility on international trade flows of transition economies in Central Europe by studying the case of Hungarian agricultural exports to their export destination countries between 1999 and 2008. Based on a gravity model that controls for other fact...

This paper analyses efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) in Hungarian sugar beet production applying non-parametric frontier techniques. For 2004 and 2005 efficiency and TFP are calculated by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and by a Malmquist index respectively. Between 2004 and 2005 the average technical efficiency was very stable, aroun...

The literature on the agricultural transformation in Central an Eastern European countries usually neglect the investigation of organizational forms in agriculture. This paper is the first to analyze the choice of organization forms in transition agriculture employing transaction cost theory. The analysis is based on Hungarian FADN data in 2003. In...

This paper explores the effect of exchange rate volatility and of the institutional quality on international trade flows of transition economies in Central European Countries by applying a gravity model of balance panel between 1999 and 2008. The results show that nominal exchange rate volatility has had a significant negative effect on trade by ap...

Az FDI és az export egymást kiegészítő tényezők, amit két okkal magyarázhatunk. Egyrészt a multinacionális vállalatok működőtőke befektetéseivel, valamint a két ország közötti kereskedelemnek köszönhető méretgazdaságossággal, másrészt a gazdasági intézkedések hatásával. Az exportot elősegíti az importáló ország reál GDP-jének alakulása, a vámok vis...