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Local food systems: concepts, impacts, and issues
Martinez, Steve; Hand, Michael; Da Pra, Michelle; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
from the 2005 School Nutrition and Dietary Assessment Survey, sponsored by USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, showed that …Consumer demand for food that is locally produced,marketed, and consumed is generating increased interest in local food … throughout the United States. As interest grows, so do questions about what constitutes local food and what characterizes local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490072
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Structural distortions in the Euro interbank market: the role of 'key players' during the recent market turmoil
Liberati, Caterina; Marzo, Massimiliano; Zagaglia, Paolo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We study the frictions in the patterns of trades in the Euro money market. We characterize the structure of lending relations during the period of recent financial turmoil. We use network-topology method on data from overnight transactions in the Electronic Market for Interbank Deposits (e-Mid)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260538
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Farmers as knowledge brokers: Analysing three cases from Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
Nguyen, Quy-Hanh; Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper explores the novel dimensions of agrarian change and of an agricultural knowledge‐creation culture in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta by examining cases of farmers engaged in knowledge brokering. Farmers empowered with knowledge, and through intensive engagement in networks and communities...
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The determinants of international financial integration revisited: the role of networks and geographic neutrality
Arribas, Iván; Pérez, Francisco; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Over the last two decades, the degree of international financial integration has increased substantially, becoming an important area of research for many financial economists. This paper explores the determinants of the asymmetries in the international integration of banking systems. We consider...
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Measuring International Economic Integration: Theory and Evidence of Globalization
Arribas, Iván; Pérez, Francisco; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This article features a set of indicators designed to measure international economic integration and globalization. We analyze the degree of openness and the respective networks of connections---both direct and indirect---for each economy in our sample. Our indicators are based on network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005026632
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On the Dynamics of Globalization
Arribas, Iván; Pérez, Francisco; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
How has the process of international economic integration advanced over the last four decades? How will the foreseeable future look like? We attempt to answer this sort of questions by considering some methods which have scarcely been used in the literature on globalization. First, we consider a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005026637
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Openness and geographic neutrality: How do they contribute to international banking integration?
Pérez, Francisco; Arribas, Iván; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The aim of this article is to develop new international financial integration indicators together with their determinants: financial openness and regularity (balance) of the bilateral financial flows. The study's contribution is based on the definition of the Standard of Perfect Financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027123
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A New Approach to Infer Changes in the Synchronization of Business Cycle Phases
Leiva-Leon, Danilo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper proposes a Markov-switching framework useful to endogenously identify regimes where economies enter recessionary and expansionary phases synchronously, and regimes where economies are unsynchronized following independent business cycle phases. The reliability of the framework to track...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109993
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Global technological collaboration network. Network analysis of international co-inventions
De Prato, Giuditta; Nepelski, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Global innovation networks are emerging as a result of the international division of innovation processes through, among others, international technological collaborations. At the aggregate level, the creation of technological collaboration between countries can be considered as mutually...
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What is behind the structure of regional networks in the German biotechnology industry?
Strotebeck, Falk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
By using methods of network analysis I uncover the underlying structure of cooperation-linkages within and between regions on firm level for the German biotechnology industry. I show that intraregional as well as interregional linkages expose a distinctive set of regions as the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112070