Eine Auswertung von 35 Forschungsarbeiten über den Einfluss der Finanzspekulation auf die Agrarrohstoffmärkte gelangt zu folgenden Ergebnissen: Die weit überwiegende Mehrheit der Studien kann die in der öffentlichen Diskussion vorherrschenden Befürchtungen nicht bestätigen. Gemäß...

An evaluation of 35 research papers into the impact of financial speculation on agricultural commodities markets has revealed: The vast majority of studies did not confirm the concerns that prevail in public discourse. The current state of knowledge indicates only a few, and weak, findings that...

In the last decades, NGOs have become an important participant in the work of political organizations (e.g., national authorities, the EU or the UN). This development brings many opportunities and also some challenges, including discourse failure which is one of the topics discussed in this...

Diese Kurzdarstellung bietet einen Überblick (1.) über die realwirtschaftlichen Ursa-chen der jüngsten Agrarpreiskrisen sowie (2.) über die wissenschaftliche Evidenz zu der Frage, inwiefern die Agrarpreiskrisen durch index-basierte Terminmarktgeschäfte von Finanzinvestoren hervorgerufen...

This paper takes both a conceptual and an empirical approach to answer the question of how CSR can be connected to the company’s role as an agent of social value creation that operates within an imperfect institutional framework of market competition. To develop a functional design for an...

This paper is a revision of the Discussion Paper 2012-02 intended to modify several interpretations of the empirical analysis. In this modified version, the paper takes both a conceptual and an empirical approach to answer the question of how CSR can be con-nected to the company’s role as an...