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The nature of food insecurity has been changing in the world. While research on food insecurity in developing countries … household survey data from Malawi to analyse ‘one of the other faces of malnutrition’. The world food price crisis of 2007 … on their implications for food security. A critical research gap remains with comparing simulation outcomes across …
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Online Consumer-to-Consumer Communication Networks are characterized by informational and social benefits as well as time and effort costs for participants. Therefore, this dissertation takes an economic perspective on the network formation process as a determinant of value for consumers and...
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Mit der Liberalisierung des europäischen Marktes für elektrische Energie haben sich die Randbedingungen für alle in diesem Markt tätigen Unternehmen grundlegend verändert. Um das langfristige Ziel eines europäischen Binnenmarktes zu erreichen, sind erhebliche Eingriffe in die unter...
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Diese Doktorarbeit besteht aus vier eigenständigen Forschungsarbeiten, die in der Zeit von Oktober 2004 bis Oktober 2007 geschrieben wurden, während ich Teilnehmer am "Doctoral Programme in Quantitative Economics and Finance" an der Universität Konstanz war. Meine Forschungsinteressen...
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Today's predominant disclosure philosophy calls for the fulldisclosure of all decision relevant information bycompanies. More publicly available information, theargument goes, limits the adverse selection problem by reducinginformation asymmetry among heterogeneous investors. Thus, theliquidity...
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During the last 60 years the WTO (World Trade Organization) and its General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) have … rounds and globally liberalize world trade. Membership of the GATT has risen from 23 to currently 153 members.Although the … multilateral trading system succeeded in liberalizing trade barriers in the world global free trade has not been achieved. During …
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The importance of social and economic networks has meanwhile been widely acknowledged throughout social sciences. Network positions are supposed to be important for both, consumers and suppliers. Examples are R&D collaborations, strategic alliances, knowledge management within organizations,...
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andhold- up risks. The long term risk of the drop of the collective reputation of the Appellationjustifies the economic …
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Functional Food emerged as a constant segment in the Europeanfood market and offer potential for product innovations … which make themattractive for the food industry in nearly stagnating markets. Target groupresearch is one key factor for … successful innovative food products. The aimof this project was to develop and test a Functional Food related …
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