In welcher Welt wollen wir morgen leben? DieGlobalisierung habe in eine Welt geführt, in derProbleme nur noch gemeinsam zu lösen seien,lautet das gängige Motto. Wie schwierig es fällt,dem Motto „global denken – lokal handeln“ mitkonkreten Maßnahmen zu folgen, zeigt sich beider...

This paper has benefited greatly from a discussion of an earlier version with the participantsof the first Humboldt Forum for Food and Agriculture in Davos, Switzerland in March 2009.Research has been made possible in part by a research grant from BASF SE – The ChemicalCompany. The first two...

We analyze the long-term impacts of large-scale expansion of biofuels on land-usechange, food supply and prices, and the overall economy in various countries or regions using amulti-country, multi-sector global computable general equilibrium model augmented with an explicitland-use module and...

We employ an open economy general equilibrium model to investigate the effects of governmentenergy policy, with an emphasis on corn-based ethanol, on the U.S. economy. The modelspecification incorporates world and domestic markets, assumes pollution costs from fuelconsumption, and allows...

Significant government support for biofuels has led to rapid growth in U.S. ethanol production andresearch to develop more advanced biofuels. In this paper we construct a general equilibrium, openeconomy model that captures the rationale typically invoked to justify government intervention in...

We quantify the emergence of biofuel markets and its impact on U.S. and world agriculturefor the coming decade using the multi-market, multi-commodity international FAPRI (Food andAgricultural Policy Research Institute) model. The model incorporates the trade-offs betweenbiofuel, feed, and food...

Das neue TKG hat ein besonderes Augenmerk und regulatorische Aufmerksamkeit auf die nach der Liberalisierung der Märkte noch auftretenden Wettbewerbsprobleme gelegt. Eines dieser Probleme ist in § 28 Abs. 2 Nr. 2 adressiert: Die Preis-Kosten-Schere (PKS). Danach muss die Spanne zwischen...

Die Besteuerung von Kapitaleinkommen im deutschen Ertragsteuerrecht erfolgt nichtfinanzierungsneutral. Der Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirt-schaftlichen Entwicklung hatte im Vorfeld der Unternehmensteuerreform 2008/09 einfinanzierungsneutrales Körperschaftsteuersystem...

If the (un)trustworthy are rare, people will talk about them, making their detectionmore reliable and / or less costly. When, however, both types appear in large numbers,detecting (un)trustworthiness will be considerably more difficult and possibly too costly.Based on Güth and Kliemt (2000) we...