Climate change leads to more frequent and more intense droughts in Somalia. In a global context, weather shocks have been found to perpetuate poverty and fuel civil conflict. By relating regional and temporal variations in violent conflict outbreaks with drought incidence and severity, we show...

Meat MarketNational and international meat markets recovered in 2002 from the disturbances recently caused by animal diseases (BSE, FMD). Relaxed trade restrictions allowed world trade to grow at an overall rate of 2.5 per cent as against only 1 per cent in 2001. In several world regions as e.g....

In diesem Beitrag werden nach einer Auflistung der Strukturmerkmale eines Landes bzw. einer Region ausgewählte Daten der land- und forstwirtschaftlichen Betriebszählungen bzw. der Agrarstrukturerhebungen analysiert. Die Anzahl der Betriebe mit Kulturfläche wird von 1951 bis 2020 gemäß den...

Declining R&D intensities at the national level coincide with growing international technological links. Deviations of individual OECD countries from the average R&D intensity reflect differences in industry structure as well as in sectoral R&D intensity. At the same time, the sectoral...

Efficiencies have yet not played a prominent role in American merger enforcement policy, although the federal antitrust agencies and the courts have recognized efficiencies as a factor in merger analysis that may tilt the balance in an otherwise anticompetitive transaction. A review of the...

When I wrote my book on EMU four years ago (Kenen 1995), very little had been written on the international dimensions of EMU There was a chapter in the Commission's path-breaking study (European Commission, 1990). There were papers by Alogoskoufis and Portes (1991, 1992), Cooper (1992), Goodhart...

The paper presents a theory of the demand for money that combines a special case of the shopping time exchange economy with the cash-in-advance framework. The model predicts that both higher inflation and financial innovation - that reduces the cost of credit - induce agents to substitute away...