Pavel Ciaian
Biographic Data
| ID | 376262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pavel Ciaian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pavel |
| FAMILY NAME | Ciaian |
| SIGNATURE | CIAIAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Joint Research Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2405-5850 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Succession Effect on Farm Management Choices and the Influence of Successor's Gender and Role
Previous research has shown that identifying a successor prompts significant changes in farm management, a phenomenon commonly referred to as the succession effect. Based on a survey of Polish and Italian farmers and the use of count data regressions, we investigate whether the successor's gender and involvement in farm operations influence the succession effect. We find that the identification of a successor has a significant effect on all types…
Gender differences in successor identification within family farms
Growing attention has been paid to gender balance in EU agriculture due to a persistently lower presence of female farm managers. While several studies have examined factors affecting successor selection in family farms, there is limited evidence on how the process of successor identification differs between male and female successors in the EU. This paper aims to address this gap while highlighting the factors that specifically support or hinder…
Much ado about nothing? An empirical analysis of consumer behaviour in the presence of ‘dual food quality
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000900 European Commission Joint Research Centre
The impact of pre-empting dual food quality regulation on product reformulation and packaging
The occurrence of DC-SIP products has decreased. • The decrease is mostly driven by changes in front-of-pack. • Companies argue they can justify differences. The objective of this paper is to analyse the changes in the occurrence of the Differences in Composition of Seemingly Identical, branded food Products (DC-SIP) – also known as “dual food quality” – in the EU and the role of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (UCPD) in affecting the f…
The relative pay for foreign work
Where are craft breweries located? The role of agglomeration, tourism, and know-how
The objective of this article is to identify main drivers determining the geographical location of craft breweries in Slovakia. The main contribution of the article to the literature is to provide empirical evidence on the location determines of small firms as well as the focus on the Eastern European country both of which are less explored in the literature. The article employs a conditional logit model on a regional panel data dataset of craft …
The capitalization of CAP subsidies into land prices in the EU
The objective of this paper is to estimate the capitalization of CAP subsidies into both rental prices and land values in the EU. We use FADN data at regional level for the period 1989–2016 and apply a dynamic panel approach (GMM estimator) to estimate the capitalization effect of coupled direct payments (CDPs), decoupled direct payments (DDPs) and rural development measures at EU level. The estimated results suggest that the short-run (long-run)…
Economic determinants of differences in the composition of seemingly identical branded food products in the EU
This paper provides an econometric estimation of the economic determinants of differences in the composition of seemingly identical branded food products (DC-SIP) in the European Union. The DC-SIP issue has previously been referred to in the media as the “dual food quality” issue. The analyses in this paper are based on the results from the EU wide testing survey (European Commission, 2019a) in combination with economic data collected from differ…
Agricultural policies and European Union accession processes in the Western Balkans
One of the main political objectives of Western Balkan (WB) countries/territories is accession into the European Union (EU). From the perspective of the agricultural sector, this implies that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) represents the benchmark for setting their future agricultural policy. This paper analyzes the structure of the currently implemented agricultural policies in the WBs, and their level of harmonization with the CAP. The un…
Regional impacts of the EU Rural Development Programme
The paper illustrates the application of the regional quasi-experimental estimation approach to estimate impacts of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) on the performance of the food processing sector in Poland. It brings several advantages compared with estimations based on firm data by capturing the RDP effects on non-supported firms and measures targeting overall development of rural areas; it provides a more accurate aggregate regional poli…
Marginalisation of Roma
The existing policy and academic debate on the social mobility of Roma have been focused almost entirely on entry barriers (the cost of entry into the mainstream society), whereas exit barriers (the cost of exit from the traditional Roma lifestyle) have been acknowledged and studied to a much lesser extent. In this study we advocate that from a policy perspective it is important to understand differences between the two types of social mobility b…
Social Mobility Barriers for Roma
This article attempts to identify and document social mobility barriers for Roma. We have identified two types of social mobility barriers: the cost of exit from the traditional Roma community, and the cost of entry into the mainstream society. Most of the existing policy and academic debate on the social and economic marginalisation of Roma has focused almost entirely on entry barriers. The main contribution of the current paper to the existing …
The impact of producer organizations on farm performance
This paper estimates the farm level impact of producer organizations’ (PO) membership in Slovakia and the effectiveness of support provided to POs under the EU Rural Development Programme (RDP). We employ the PSM-DID econometric approach on a database of large Slovak commercial farms for 2006 and 2015. First, our results show that belonging to a PO improves the economic performance of farms in Slovakia. Second, in the short-run the support grante…
Land fragmentation and production diversification
We analyze the impact of land fragmentation on production diversification in rural Albania. Albania represents a particularly interesting case for studying land fragmentation as the fragmentation is a direct outcome of land reforms. The results indicate that land fragmentation is an important driver of production diversification of farm households in Albania. We find that land fragmentation stimulates significantly more diversification for subsis…
Does the crop diversification measure impact EU farmers’ decisions? An assessment using an Individual Farm Model for CAP Analysis (IFM-CAP)
Investment Crowding Out
Michalek J., Ciaian P. and Kancs d’A. Investment crowding out: firm-level evidence from Northern Germany, Regional Studies. The main objective of this paper is to estimate the extent to which firm investment is substituted (crowded out) by investment support policies granted under the European Union Rural Development Programme (RDP). The empirical analyses employed the difference-in-difference propensity score-matching approach, which allows seve…
The future of agriculture. Prospective scenarios and modelling approaches for policy analysis
Land use change impacts of biofuels
The Rise and Fall of Enforcement Institutions
Societies in Western civilisation enforce their rules through formal secular institutions (SES), whereas less developed civilisations often rely on informal, often religious, institutions (RES). The present paper attempts to explain the determinants of societies’ choice between different enforcement systems, and their implications for society development using an example of two different enforcement models: one informal (RES) and one formal (SES)…
Job creation and job destruction in EU agriculture
The Impact of Food Price Shock on Heterogeneous Credit Constrained Firms
The paper analyzes how rising food and energy prices affect heterogeneous firm access to inputs and production under credit market imperfections. We estimate a firm credit constraint equation using a unique firm level panel data and find that, on average, small individual firms (IF) are more credit constrained than large corporate firms (CF). Using the estimated parameters, we simulate the effect of the recent food price shock on the world market…
Food, energy and environment
Land fragmentation and production diversification
We analyze the impact of land fragmentation on production diversification in rural Albania. Albania represents a particularly interesting case for studying land fragmentation as the fragmentation is a direct outcome of land reforms. The results indicate that land fragmentation is an important driver of production diversification of farm households in Albania. We find that land fragmentation stimulates significantly more diversification for subsis…
Investment Crowding Out
Michalek J., Ciaian P. and Kancs d’A. Investment crowding out: firm-level evidence from Northern Germany, Regional Studies. The main objective of this paper is to estimate the extent to which firm investment is substituted (crowded out) by investment support policies granted under the European Union Rural Development Programme (RDP). The empirical analyses employed the difference-in-difference propensity score-matching approach, which allows seve…
The impact of producer organizations on farm performance
This paper estimates the farm level impact of producer organizations’ (PO) membership in Slovakia and the effectiveness of support provided to POs under the EU Rural Development Programme (RDP). We employ the PSM-DID econometric approach on a database of large Slovak commercial farms for 2006 and 2015. First, our results show that belonging to a PO improves the economic performance of farms in Slovakia. Second, in the short-run the support grante…
The capitalization of CAP subsidies into land prices in the EU
The objective of this paper is to estimate the capitalization of CAP subsidies into both rental prices and land values in the EU. We use FADN data at regional level for the period 1989–2016 and apply a dynamic panel approach (GMM estimator) to estimate the capitalization effect of coupled direct payments (CDPs), decoupled direct payments (DDPs) and rural development measures at EU level. The estimated results suggest that the short-run (long-run)…
Social Mobility Barriers for Roma
This article attempts to identify and document social mobility barriers for Roma. We have identified two types of social mobility barriers: the cost of exit from the traditional Roma community, and the cost of entry into the mainstream society. Most of the existing policy and academic debate on the social and economic marginalisation of Roma has focused almost entirely on entry barriers. The main contribution of the current paper to the existing …
Regional impacts of the EU Rural Development Programme
The paper illustrates the application of the regional quasi-experimental estimation approach to estimate impacts of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) on the performance of the food processing sector in Poland. It brings several advantages compared with estimations based on firm data by capturing the RDP effects on non-supported firms and measures targeting overall development of rural areas; it provides a more accurate aggregate regional poli…
Marginalisation of Roma
The existing policy and academic debate on the social mobility of Roma have been focused almost entirely on entry barriers (the cost of entry into the mainstream society), whereas exit barriers (the cost of exit from the traditional Roma lifestyle) have been acknowledged and studied to a much lesser extent. In this study we advocate that from a policy perspective it is important to understand differences between the two types of social mobility b…
The future of agriculture. Prospective scenarios and modelling approaches for policy analysis
Job creation and job destruction in EU agriculture
Agricultural policies and European Union accession processes in the Western Balkans
One of the main political objectives of Western Balkan (WB) countries/territories is accession into the European Union (EU). From the perspective of the agricultural sector, this implies that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) represents the benchmark for setting their future agricultural policy. This paper analyzes the structure of the currently implemented agricultural policies in the WBs, and their level of harmonization with the CAP. The un…
Does the crop diversification measure impact EU farmers’ decisions? An assessment using an Individual Farm Model for CAP Analysis (IFM-CAP)
Food, energy and environment
The Impact of Food Price Shock on Heterogeneous Credit Constrained Firms
The paper analyzes how rising food and energy prices affect heterogeneous firm access to inputs and production under credit market imperfections. We estimate a firm credit constraint equation using a unique firm level panel data and find that, on average, small individual firms (IF) are more credit constrained than large corporate firms (CF). Using the estimated parameters, we simulate the effect of the recent food price shock on the world market…
Food, energy and environment
Land use change impacts of biofuels
The Rise and Fall of Enforcement Institutions
Societies in Western civilisation enforce their rules through formal secular institutions (SES), whereas less developed civilisations often rely on informal, often religious, institutions (RES). The present paper attempts to explain the determinants of societies’ choice between different enforcement systems, and their implications for society development using an example of two different enforcement models: one informal (RES) and one formal (SES)…
Job creation and job destruction in EU agriculture
The future of agriculture. Prospective scenarios and modelling approaches for policy analysis
Investment Crowding Out
Michalek J., Ciaian P. and Kancs d’A. Investment crowding out: firm-level evidence from Northern Germany, Regional Studies. The main objective of this paper is to estimate the extent to which firm investment is substituted (crowded out) by investment support policies granted under the European Union Rural Development Programme (RDP). The empirical analyses employed the difference-in-difference propensity score-matching approach, which allows seve…
Does the crop diversification measure impact EU farmers’ decisions? An assessment using an Individual Farm Model for CAP Analysis (IFM-CAP)
Marginalisation of Roma
The existing policy and academic debate on the social mobility of Roma have been focused almost entirely on entry barriers (the cost of entry into the mainstream society), whereas exit barriers (the cost of exit from the traditional Roma lifestyle) have been acknowledged and studied to a much lesser extent. In this study we advocate that from a policy perspective it is important to understand differences between the two types of social mobility b…
Social Mobility Barriers for Roma
This article attempts to identify and document social mobility barriers for Roma. We have identified two types of social mobility barriers: the cost of exit from the traditional Roma community, and the cost of entry into the mainstream society. Most of the existing policy and academic debate on the social and economic marginalisation of Roma has focused almost entirely on entry barriers. The main contribution of the current paper to the existing …
The impact of producer organizations on farm performance
This paper estimates the farm level impact of producer organizations’ (PO) membership in Slovakia and the effectiveness of support provided to POs under the EU Rural Development Programme (RDP). We employ the PSM-DID econometric approach on a database of large Slovak commercial farms for 2006 and 2015. First, our results show that belonging to a PO improves the economic performance of farms in Slovakia. Second, in the short-run the support grante…
Land fragmentation and production diversification
We analyze the impact of land fragmentation on production diversification in rural Albania. Albania represents a particularly interesting case for studying land fragmentation as the fragmentation is a direct outcome of land reforms. The results indicate that land fragmentation is an important driver of production diversification of farm households in Albania. We find that land fragmentation stimulates significantly more diversification for subsis…
Agricultural policies and European Union accession processes in the Western Balkans
One of the main political objectives of Western Balkan (WB) countries/territories is accession into the European Union (EU). From the perspective of the agricultural sector, this implies that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) represents the benchmark for setting their future agricultural policy. This paper analyzes the structure of the currently implemented agricultural policies in the WBs, and their level of harmonization with the CAP. The un…
Regional impacts of the EU Rural Development Programme
The paper illustrates the application of the regional quasi-experimental estimation approach to estimate impacts of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) on the performance of the food processing sector in Poland. It brings several advantages compared with estimations based on firm data by capturing the RDP effects on non-supported firms and measures targeting overall development of rural areas; it provides a more accurate aggregate regional poli…
Economic determinants of differences in the composition of seemingly identical branded food products in the EU
This paper provides an econometric estimation of the economic determinants of differences in the composition of seemingly identical branded food products (DC-SIP) in the European Union. The DC-SIP issue has previously been referred to in the media as the “dual food quality” issue. The analyses in this paper are based on the results from the EU wide testing survey (European Commission, 2019a) in combination with economic data collected from differ…
Where are craft breweries located? The role of agglomeration, tourism, and know-how
The objective of this article is to identify main drivers determining the geographical location of craft breweries in Slovakia. The main contribution of the article to the literature is to provide empirical evidence on the location determines of small firms as well as the focus on the Eastern European country both of which are less explored in the literature. The article employs a conditional logit model on a regional panel data dataset of craft …
The capitalization of CAP subsidies into land prices in the EU
The objective of this paper is to estimate the capitalization of CAP subsidies into both rental prices and land values in the EU. We use FADN data at regional level for the period 1989–2016 and apply a dynamic panel approach (GMM estimator) to estimate the capitalization effect of coupled direct payments (CDPs), decoupled direct payments (DDPs) and rural development measures at EU level. The estimated results suggest that the short-run (long-run)…
The impact of pre-empting dual food quality regulation on product reformulation and packaging
The occurrence of DC-SIP products has decreased. • The decrease is mostly driven by changes in front-of-pack. • Companies argue they can justify differences. The objective of this paper is to analyse the changes in the occurrence of the Differences in Composition of Seemingly Identical, branded food Products (DC-SIP) – also known as “dual food quality” – in the EU and the role of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (UCPD) in affecting the f…
The relative pay for foreign work
Gender differences in successor identification within family farms
Growing attention has been paid to gender balance in EU agriculture due to a persistently lower presence of female farm managers. While several studies have examined factors affecting successor selection in family farms, there is limited evidence on how the process of successor identification differs between male and female successors in the EU. This paper aims to address this gap while highlighting the factors that specifically support or hinder…
Much ado about nothing? An empirical analysis of consumer behaviour in the presence of ‘dual food quality
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000900 European Commission Joint Research Centre
The Succession Effect on Farm Management Choices and the Influence of Successor's Gender and Role
Previous research has shown that identifying a successor prompts significant changes in farm management, a phenomenon commonly referred to as the succession effect. Based on a survey of Polish and Italian farmers and the use of count data regressions, we investigate whether the successor's gender and involvement in farm operations influence the succession effect. We find that the identification of a successor has a significant effect on all types…
Economics (19 works) · Business (12 works) · Agriculture (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Agricultural Economics and Policy (10 works) · Agricultural economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · European union (4 works)