This study provides a comparative overview of current legislation and practices concerning food donation in the EU … Member States (MS) by mapping key hurdles preventing food donation, by identifying best practices in the field and by … developing recommendations on how to legislate or interpret legislation in order to facilitate food donation. The study …

We estimate the effect of demand and price uncertainty on firms’ investment decisions from a panel of manufacturing … firms. Uncertainty measures are derived from firms’ subjective qualitative expectations. They are close to their theoretical … counterparts, the variances of future demand and price shocks. We find that demand uncertainty depresses planned and realized …