Lionel Hubbard

Abstract: Gorton M., Hubbard C. and Hubbard L. The folly of European Union policy transfer: why the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) does not fit Central and Eastern Europe, Regional Studies. This paper assesses the appropriateness of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for meeting rural development challenges in the New Member States (NMS). It argues that while the mitigation of structural problems confronting rural areas in these countries is critical to meeting the challenge of effectively integrating Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) into the European Union, the CAP is poorly suited to this task. Overall, the CAP was insufficiently reformed to accommodate CEE accession effectively and it represents a failure of the European Union to adjust adequately from an exclusively Western European institution into an appropriate pan-European organization. Gorton M., Hubbard C. et Hubbard L. La folie d'elargir les politiques de l'Ue: la Pac, pourquoi elle ne convient pas aux Peco, Regional Studies. Cet art...

TL;DR: In this paper, a web survey was conducted in the largest five EU-25 countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK to identify salient cross-cultural differences between northern and southern Europe and suggest that psychological constructs developed using the Ajzen model are useful in explaining heterogeneity of preferences.

TL;DR: The authors examined the influence of managerial ability on economies of size using econometrically estimated long-run average cost (LAC) functions from milk marketing board data for 1980/1.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the competitiveness of Hungarian agriculture in relation to that of the EU employing four indices of revealed comparative advantage, for the period 1992 to 1998 Consistency tests implies that the indices are less satisfactory as cardinal measures, but are useful in identifying whether or not Hungary has a comparative advantage in a particular product group.

TL;DR: In this article, a choice experiment was conducted using a D-optimal design to understand Kenyan farmers' preferences on the type of DFZ that would be readily acceptable to them, and the results showed that farmers would be willing to pay to participate in a DFZ where adequate training is provided on pasture development, record keeping and disease monitoring; market information is provided and sales contract opportunities are guaranteed; cattle are properly labelled for ease of identification; and some monetary compensation is provided in the event that cattle die due to severe disease outbreaks.