… Zvi Lerman also gratefully acknowledges the support of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
which granted him a two-year leave of absence for the purpose of writing this book, and the …

… For more details and additional references, the reader may wish to consult Csaki and
Lerman (1997), Lerman (1998), and Swinnen et al. (1997). Finally, we examine the intriguing …

Russia has experienced dramatic changes in land ownership and land tenure since the
dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991: agricultural land has been largely privatized, …

… This paper was written when Zvi Lerman was on sabbatical leave in the University of
Minnesota. The research was supported by BARD-US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and …

Russian agriculture has shown stable growth since 1999. The food trade balance steadily
improves and the share of imported food in retail markets is decreasing due to the government’…

The growing share of individual farms in the agricultural output of transition countries requires
measures to encourage a higher level of commercial sales. Evidence from numerous farm …

Some institutional investors may be confined (either by policy or by regulation) to holdings
in the bond market. In the 1960-80 period, the US stock market dominated the US bond …

… The authors may be contacted at lerman@agri.huji.ac.il, ccsaki@worldbank.org, or gfeder@…
Zvi Lerman gratefully acknowledges the support of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, …

… This paper was written when 2vi Lerman was on sabbatical leave in the Department …
aThe probability that the Z-statistic exceeds the observed value under the null hypothesis …

… This paper was written when Zvi Lerman was on sabbatical leave at the Department of
Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota. The research was supported by …