The potential cointegrating relationship between stock prices and economic activity suggested by financial and economic theory is examined. It is found that the commonly employed tests of Engle and Granger (1987) and Johansen (1988) fail to detect cointegration between stock prices and...

The year 2009 remains in the history of world economy as being, for all the countries in the world, the year of fight against the global economic crisis. After 2008, when the effects of the financial, banking and stock market crisis have spread throughout the American economy, 2009 has not...

The global economic crisis showed effects in the West Balkans in the second half of 2008, multiplying the already existing economic problems. To investigate the relationship between the domestic economic activities and the economic dependence of these countries on foreign economic relations, we...

In dem vorliegenden Beitrag werden am Beispiel des Landes Hessen die Entwicklungsperspektiven von Forstbetriebsgemeinschaften aufgezeigt. Die strukturelle Bedeutung derartiger Zusammenschlüsse für die hessische Forstwirtschaft ist auch daraus ersichtlich, dass gegenwärtig etwa die Hälfte der...

Against the background of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2003 the following analysis, brings into focus the responses of the agricultural sector to decoupled subsidies. In particular it addresses the impact of the Single Payment Scheme (SPS) on land sales and rent prices...