world. Because of this limitation, quantitative results were limited to Alaskan crude oil prices. All other price and trade … world. The model-generated results cover both crude and product prices as well as petroleum trade flows. The quantitative …

to international coal trade. This includes coal production, consumption, imports and exports information. The ICSD is a … for World Coal Trade (DOE/EIA-0363) publication. The ICSD system is menu driven and also permits the user who is familiar …

This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has …-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade does not appear to account for observed and anticipated trade flows …. This is consistent with findings in the commodity trade literature that, although markets may behave in a rational economic …

China’s agricultural and trade policies have been shifting despite little change in policy objectives. This paper … investigates potential implications of recent agriculture policies applied in China, and quantitatively analyzes their impacts on … farmers and lowering domestic prices to consumers. China’s producers increase production slightly because of increased input …

This study analyzes the potential impact of climate change on China's corn, wheat, and rice, domestic agricultural … literature of climate change effects on China's crop yields. The paper presents the potential impact of climate change on China … under CO2 fertilization, which increases yields, China's grain imports may decrease leading to a decrease in international …

In the early 1990s, the United States began to run a significant trade deficit with China due to the dual forces of … greater trade liberalization and China’s transition from a command economy towards a market economy. Proponents of free trade … integration and trade liberalization. Many analysts have commented on China’s increasing foreign reserves. The US trade deficit …

general equilibrium analysis that carbon based import tariffs are more effective as a menace towards China than for saving CO2 … womöglich eher als Drohung gegenüber China als zur Einsparung von CO2-Emissionen eignen. Kapitel 5 weist im Rahmen einer …

piracy wheresellers can influence the degree of piracy by implementing digitalrights management (DRM) systems. It is shown … that a monopolist’soptimal pricing schedule can be characterized as a simple combination ofthe zero-piracy pricing schedule … and a piracy-indifferent pricingschedule that makes all customers indifferent between legal usage andpiracy. An increase …

Piracy has been a major problem for perpetually licensed software. Usage-based licensing architecture such as pay …-per-use or software-as-a-service can offer technology-based protection against piracy. We provide an analytical framework to … examine the economic implications of pay-per-use versus perpetual licensing in a market with potential piracy, network effect …

led to online piracy and the emergence of a new class of retailers that specialize in digital downloads. Both online … piracy and digital retailers have changed the dynamics of the information goods distribution channel. In my dissertation I … online piracy. DRM refers to technologies designed to control how end users may access, copy, or convert digital media. In …