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Trade liberalisation under the Doha Development Agenda Options and consequences for Africa

Achterbosch, Tom; Hammouda, Hakim Ben; Osakwe, Patrick; … - EconWPA - 2004

This study provides a quantitative estimate of the potential economic consequences of multilateral trade reform under the WTO for Africa using a framework that explicitly incorporates issues of concern to the region, such as preference erosion, loss of tariff revenue, and trade facilitation. It...

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Cheap Food Policy: Fact or Rhetoric

Miller, James; Coble, Keith - EconWPA - 2005

The term “cheap food policy” has frequently been used as a descriptor for U.S. commodity programs by those who contend these payments to farmers ultimately result in lower food costs for consumers. More recently, farm policy has been criticized for contributing to the obesity problem in the...

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Agricultural policies and farm structures - agent-based simulation and application to EU-policy reform

Happe, Kathrin - EconWPA - 2005

The development of competitive and efficient agricultural structures has been one of the central goals of agricultural policy making in addition to ensuring a fair standard of living for farmers. To achieve these goals, the agricultural sector in most industrialised nations has long been the...

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The Changing Concept of Financial Risk

LOS, CORNELIS A. - EconWPA - 2004

financial risk based on asset classes only is ready for a epistemological change. Currently, the definition of financial risk … suffers from three major deficiencies: (1) financial risk is insufficiently measured by the conventional second - order … moments; (2) financial risk is assumed to be stable and all distribution moments are assumed to be time-invariant; and (3 …

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Gains and losses: the same or different choices? A “non-ideal” economics approach.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Ideal economics? A “non-ideal” economics approach has been proposed, which considers the possibility of arrangement infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields of research. The approach application in...

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Arrangement Infringement Possibility Approach: Some Economic Features of Large-Scale Events

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2004

The definition of arrangement infringement has been given. Several characteristics of hurricanes as large-scale events and objectives for the first stages of insurance data analysis have been sketched out. Scale hypotheses, insurance and investment problems have been formulated.

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Gains and losses. The same or different choices?

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Arrangements (agreements, contracts, projects, etc.) are widespread economic events and are the fundamental concept of the economic theory. Infringements (breaches, modifications, changes, etc.) of arrangements are common and have a significant importance for the economic theory. For many years...

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Do bilateral investment treaties increase foreign direct investment to developing countries?

Neumayer, Eric; Spess, Laura - EconWPA - 2004

Foreign investors are often skeptical toward the quality of the domestic institutions and the enforceability of the law in developing countries. Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) guarantee certain standards of treatment that can be enforced via binding investor-to- state dispute settlement...

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Scientific Revolution. A Farewell to EconWPA.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

A revolution in economics. Is it possible? Is its concept a transition from ideal to real economics? The way to the transition may be a new aspect of uncertainty. Problems, which can be solved, research fields, which can be augmented or created, and fields of applications in practical economy...

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Private Crop Insurers and the Reinsurance Fund Allocation Decision

Coble, Keith; Dismukes, Robert; Glauber, Joseph - EconWPA - 2005

different risk sharing arrangements. Thus, firm earnings are conditioned upon accurately forecasting policy loss experience. Our … analysis begins with models investigating the characteristics explaining the placement of policies into the assigned risk fund …

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