unfavorable harvest shocks in other regions of the world significantly curtail domestic economic activity. The effects are much … agriculture in GDP or lower shares of non-agricultural trade in GDP; that is, characteristics that typically apply to low …

1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features necessary to study the problem, including an explicit agriculture … sector, endogenous fertility, directed technical change and fossil/renewable energy. We estimate the world economy is more … than one trillion dollars smaller, and world population more than 80 million smaller, than would have been the case without …

This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models … are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro …-ecological potential as a pull factor. In contrast to the literature on foreign investment in general, the quality of the business climate …

reasonable to interpret as the whole world. However, carbon taxes and other climate policies differ substantially across … from what one finds for a hypothetical world of identical countries. -- climate change ; exhaustible resources ; renewable …

strong impact on both world and European energy markets. In particular, lower U.S. gas and coal prices have changed relative …