Die Arbeit setzt sich mit Unterschieden des geldpolitischen Transmissionsprozesses im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe der Bundesrepublik Deutschland auseinander. Dazu wird der Sektor nach der Systematik der BACH-Datenbank der europäischen Kommission in 10 Branchen eingeteilt. An eine kurze Betrachtung...

The health implications and costs associated with increasing levels of obesity are awidespread global issue. In the United States, there is a growing interest in identifying methods to reduce obesity levels. Particular focus has been given to advertisements for unhealthy foods, especially...

Theobjective of this study is to analyze how imported trout affects the domestic U.S. trout industry.

This study proposes one plausible procedure to address two methodological issues,which are common in micro- and macro- econometric analyses, for the full realization ofresearch potential brought by recently available high dimensional data. To address the issue ofhow to infer the causal structure...

Phytosterol is a healthful ingredient that helps reduce blood cholesterol levels. It hasbeen over ten years since the first phytosterol-enriched product, Benecol margarine, waslaunched in Finland in 1995; however, understanding of this product is still limited. Inaddition, it has been shown in the...

Consumption is perhaps the most important economic behavior of human beings. To it goes the lion's share of the country's annual product. This study is part of the ongoing efforts to give a reasonable description of how various factors affect household consumption decision. Those factors include...

Este artículo muestra cómo modelos de demanda pueden utilizarse para cuantificar los efectos de transferencias en especie y en efectivo sobre el bienestar de los beneficiarios. La metodología propuesta se basa en calcular los «precios virtuales» que garantizarían el mismo nivel de...

The aim of this study is to empirically examine the four elements of intellectual capital (human capital, customer capital, structural capital and innovation capital) and their relationship with business performance in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE). This study was conducted based on a...