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The global hunger indices of 2008 and 2009 (Grebmer et al. 2008, 2009) point to persistently high levels of hunger and food insecurity and a worsening of the situation due to rising crop prices. At the same time, there is a lack of empirical knowledge on the demand- and supply-side determinants...
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-run relationships by allowing for causality and convergence, are employed. In three essays, the proposed procedures are applied to food …
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inflation convergence using different approaches, namely panel unit root tests, cointegration tests and error-correction models …. All in all we cannot reject convergence of ULC growth in EMU, however, country-specific deviations from the rest of the …
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The global hunger indices of 2008 and 2009 (Grebmer et al. 2008, 2009) point to persistently high levels of hunger and food insecurity and a worsening of the situation due to rising crop prices. At the same time, there is a lack of empirical knowledge on the demand- and supply-side determinants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003987277
We propose a regime-switching model that allows demand to respond asymmetrically to upward and downward advertising changes. With the introduction of a smooth transition function, the model features smooth rather than abrupt parameter changes between regimes. We apply the model to nonalcoholic...
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report consists of international comparisons. The main comparison countries are the so-called old EU countries (EU15) of … Western Europe, the new EU countries (EU12) and the United States. Comparisons are also made with individual countries. After … couple of per cent higher and in December 2009 about 7 per cent higher than the average in the old EU countries, but it is …
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The present paper studies the land use change impacts of fuels and biofuels. We test the theoretical hypothesis, which says that changes in fuel prices cause changes in land use both directly and indirectly and, because of price inter-dependencies, biofuels reinforce the land use change impacts....
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Korea, and the EU are estimated using ARDL estimation techniques. The findings of the study show that export price … negatively impact US corn export. In addition, the current import price had a negative effect on Mexico, China, and the EU demand … population positively impacted corn import from the US. GDP in Mexico, Japan, South Korea, and the EU had a positive effect on …
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Die Wachstumsschwäche in einigen europäischen Ländern wie Portugal und Italien in der ersten Hälfte dieses Jahrzehnts sowie anhaltend hohe Inflationsraten und ein Bauboom in Spanien haben zu einer Debatte darüber geführt, ob sich möglicherweise die einzelnen Länder der Eurozone...
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This paper demonstrates effects of economic convergence processes on the foreign exchange behaviour in a monetary …
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