-cost-margins over the business cycle for food industries in Germany, the USA as well as the Netherlands. Controlling for market … econometric panel data models reveal procyclic fluctuations of profits in highly concentrated industries in Germany. In contrast …, profitability in competitive industries in Germany as well as in all US food industries are found to be more stable over the …

, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Hungary, and Russia. As well as using standard relative poverty definitions the paper examines flows …