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Study on the potential of marketing of Kenyan Coffee as Geographical Indication

Monique Bagal; Giovanni Belletti; Andrea Marescotti - REDD SA, Lausanne - 2013

The importance of coffee to the world economy cannot be underestimated. It is one of the most widely traded … drinking coffee is an integral way of life. The global coffee consumption reached 128 million bags in 2007 and 130 million in … 2008. Total consumption of coffee has grown by 2% per year and this trend is likely to continue. Coffee demand in Middle …

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Evaluations EIDHR

Tuijtelaars, Christiane (contributor); … - Human European Consultancy <Utrecht> - 2006

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Evaluation of the Commission of the European Union’s co-operation with Colombia : Final Report

Bouchier, Josyane; Alvarez Morato, Alejandro; … - 2012

cooperation with Colombia over the period 2002-2011. It also aims at identifying key lessons in order to improve the current and …

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Identifying fiscal shocks and policy regimes in OECD countries

Arcangelis, Giuseppe de; Lamartina, Serena - 2003

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, for West Germany, France, Italy and US, we econometrically select within a SVAR model some fiscal policy regimes, i.e. a u0094set of rulesu0094 for the implementation of fiscal policies. Second, we identify the fiscal policy shocks related to different...

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Measuring contagion with a Bayesian, time-varying coefficient model

Ciccarelli, Matteo; Rebucci, Alessandro - 2003

To measure contagion empirically, we propose using a Bayesian time-varying coeﬃcient model estimated with Markov ChainMonte Carlo methods. The proposed measure works in the joint presence of heteroskedasticity and omitted variables and does not require knowledge of the timing of the crisis. It...

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Pass-through of external shocks to euro area inflation

Hahn, Elke - 2003

This paper investigates the pass-through of external shocks, i.e. oil price shocks, exchange rate shocks, and non-oil import price shocks to euro area inﬂation at different stages of distribution (import prices, producer prices and consumer prices). The analysis is based on a VAR model that...

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Measurement of contagion in banks' equity prices

Gropp, Reint; Moerman, Gerard - 2003

This paper uses the co-incidence of extreme shocks to banksu0092 risk to examine within country and across country contagion among large EU banks. Banksu0092 risk is measured by the first difference of weekly distances to default and abnormal returns. Using Monte Carlo simulations, the paper...

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Inflation and relative price asymmetry

Ratfai, Attila - 2004

By placing store-level price data into bivariate Structural VAR models of inflation and relative price asymmetry, this study evaluates the quantitative importance of idiosyncratic pricing shocks in short-run aggregate price change dynamics. Robustly to alternative definitions of the relative...

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Equilibrium unemployment, job flows and inflation dynamics

Trigari, Antonella - 2004

worker, job creation and job destruction conditional on a shock to monetary policy. Moreover, allowing for variation of the … helps to explain the sluggishness of inflation and the persistence of output after a monetary policy shock. The ability of …

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International risk-sharing and the transmission of productivity shocks

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Dedola, Luca; Leduc, Sylvain - 2004

A central puzzle in international finance is that real exchange rates are volatile and, in stark contradiction to effcient risk-sharing, negatively correlated with cross-country consumption ratios. This paper shows that incomplete asset markets and a low price elasticity of tradables can account...

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