Price formation in marketing channels is of considerable interest for those involved in these channels but also for public authorities. For instance, farmers frequently protest against intermediaries, and, more specifically, against retailers. They often accuse those players of not (or...

Topics: Social, economic and political aspects of Climate Change.

F.O. Licht’s World Ethanol annual conference is the premier event for the global ethanol industry. World Ethanol provides an exceptional opportunity to network with influential executives from all sectors - producers, traders, equipment suppliers, oil companies, shipping and logistics...

In economies where resources are uncertain, risk sharing mechanisms enable to reallocate goods for consumption in a more efficient way than resources are. Nevertheless, efficiency requires complete markets. Since the seminal paper of Townsend (1994) who rejected the hypothesis of complete...

Featuring assessments of consumption trends in major markets including USA, Europe and Russia, reports on the major juice raw material markets, emerging markets around the world and key strategic issues for the industry, World Juice 2009 gives a complete commercial picture of the sector in just...

Key note speakers and conference participants will present papers examining different means of adapting to the multiple consequences of climate change for the urban poor. Themes thus may include, but aren’t limited to, the nexus between climate change, urban poverty and: - Health, water and...

The objectives: 1) To increase interaction between researchers on all continents who share an interest in issues related to dynamic risk sharing: - Dynamic contracting (optimal compensation schemes, delegated portfolio management,...) - Dynamic risk measures, risk sharing implications - Risk...