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Euro Area Policies; 2009 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Member Coun...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
This 2009 Article IV Consultation focuses on euro area policies. The euro area remains in recession, with signs of improvement yet to evolve into a recovery. The large drop in financial wealth, an associated increase in private savings, tight financing conditions, and the adjustment of global...
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Market Phoenixes and Banking Ducks Are Recoveries Faster in Market-Based Financial Systems?
Allard, Julien; Blavy, Rodolphe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Recoveries vary considerably across countries: our paper compares recoveries in bank-based and market-based economies and finds that market-based economies experience significantly and durably stronger rebounds than the bank-based ones (in particular the more bank-based economies of continental...
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Financial innovation, the Discovery of Risk, and the U.S. Credit Crisis
Mendoza, Enrique G.; Boz, Emine - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
Uncertainty about the riskiness of new financial products was an important factor behind the U.S. credit crisis. We show that a boom-bust cycle in debt, asset prices and consumption characterizes the equilibrium dynamics of a model with a collateral constraint in which agents learn "by...
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Hedging effectiveness in shipping industry during financial crises
Samitas, Aristeidis; Tsakalos, Ioannis - In: International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives 1 (2010) 2, pp. 196-212
can decrease their risk exposure and increase their value by using financial derivatives is considered to be essential …' risk exposure and guarantee their growth. …
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Crisis of financial system and evolution of commodities market
Varshavsky, Leonid - In: Applied Econometrics 17 (2010) 1, pp. 30-44
The main stages and history of the current financial crisis are studied. The evolution of commodities market over the last decade is analyzed, as well as measures on strengthening regulation and control of the markets. Some problems of applied econometric modeling and forecasting development of...
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Klimaresilienz durch Agrobiodiversität? Literaturstudie zum Zusammenhang zwischen Elementen der Agrobiodiversität und der Empfindlichkeit von landwirtschaftlichen Produktionssystem...
Petersen, Ute; Weigel, Hans-Joachim - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2015
Im globalen und regionalen Kontext wird wiederholt auf eine Diversifizierung der Agrarproduktion von der genetischen über die Betriebs- bis hin zur Landschaftsebene als eine entscheidende Maßnahme zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel hingewiesen. Allgemein bekannt ist, dass für die züchterische...
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2011
. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affected individuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in high flooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk related behaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …
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Which type of crop insurance for Kazakhstan? Empirical results
Heidelbach, Olaf; Bokusheva, Raushan; Kussaiynov, Talgat - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2004
Risk plays an important role in agricultural decision-making, particularly in those regions that are remarkably exposed … conditions, risk attitudes and risk management techniques with respect to the requirements of a functioning crop insurance system …Risiko spielt eine wichtige Rolle im Entscheidungsprozess landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmer, insbesondere in Regionen …
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Crop insurance in transition: a qualitative and quantitative assessment of insurance products
Bokusheva, Raushan - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2004
This discussion paper considers insurance as a possible instrument of farm income stabilization and compares several crop insurance products with respect to their applicability in a transition economy using the case of Kazakhstan. The analysis is based on a qualitative evaluation as well a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526832
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OECD’s work on agricultural policy: A bridge between research and government
Cahill, Carmel - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 59
The role of the OECD in linking the research and policy communities is described as well as the processes whereby OECD member countries scrutinize the work undertaken. A major project on decoupling of agricultural policy measures is used to illustrate the approaches and processes used. Attention...
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