The Russian government implemented a wheat export tax in February 2015 to reduce food inflationary pressures resulting from the rouble’s dramatic devaluation. This article discusses the causes of the rouble’s instability and volatility, and the effects of the export controls on domestic...

This paper further builds on the price transmission model framework of existing studies to identify domestic wheat price effects of wheat export controls. We explicitly take the fact into account that a harvest failure causes domestic price effects as well. Moreover, the analysis at the regional...

Es werden 24 der bedeutendsten Agrarländer der Erde portraitiert, indem unter anderem die wirtschaftlichen, klimatischen und geographischen Bedingungen dargestellt werden. Weitere Themen bilden die Agrarstruktur, die Infrastruktur und die Situation in Handel und Verarbeitung. Ebenso werden die...