Die auf den Landwirtschaftsbereich begrenzten multilateralen Handelsverhandlungen wurden im März 2000 wieder aufgenommen. Wie im Artikel 20 des Agrarübereinkommens vorgesehen, entsprechen sie den Auflagen aus der WTO-Agenda, auf die sich die Mitgliedsländer in Marrakesch am 15. April 1994 bei...

Chinese accession to the WTO will give it the right to participate in the current agriculturalnegotiations. An obvious question is whether China’s accession is likely to make agreementin the agricultural negotiations easier or more difficult. China’s WTO membership will affectthe alliances...

With the “Agreement of Geneva” the dispute about the banana imports over 15 years seems to come to an end. The liberalisation caused by this agreement will have a substantial impact on the international banana market. In order to estimate the possible effects and measures to be implemented...

Based on a literature review, this paper investigates the reasons why broad money demand has usually been found to be more stable in the euro area than in other large economies. The paper concludes that there are three main explanations for this fact. First, in some countries outside the euro...