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Modelling Possible Impacts of GM Crops on Australian Trade
Stone, Susan; Matysek, Anna; Dolling, Andrew - EconWPA - 2003
This paper looks at the impact on Australia’s trade in crops (non-wheat grains and oilseeds) where GM technology has … regulatory costs for Australia and its major trading partners. The modelling work shows that, under current market conditions …’s trade position. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407855
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"Underlying energy efficiency" in the US
Filippini, Massimo; Hunt, Lester C. - 2013
The promotion of US energy efficiency policy is seen as a very important activity by the Energy Information Agency (EIA … controlling for a range of economic and other factors, the measure of ‘underlying energy efficiency’ obtained via the approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221112
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The Unsustainable Trend of Natural Hazard Losses in the United States
Gall, Melanie; Borden, Kevin A.; Emrich, Christopher T.; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 11, pp. 2157-2181
In the United States, direct losses from natural hazards are on the rise with hurricanes, flooding, and severe storms contributing about three quarters of the total damages. While losses from severe storms have been stable over the past fifty years, hurricane and flood losses have tripled. Per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365876
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Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis for Biodiversity Risk in the US: A Spatial Econometric Approach
Tevie, Justin; Grimsrud, Kristine M.; Berrens, Robert P. - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 11, pp. 2182-2199
This study investigates whether the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) relationship is supported for a measure of … biodiversity risk and economic development across the United States (US). Using state-level data for all 48 contiguous states … associated with about a 0.19% increase in biodiversity risk. Spatial dependence in this case study explains 30% of the variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365877
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The Status of Labor-Saving Mechanization in Fruits and Vegetables
Huffman, Wallace E. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2010
 The objective of this paper is to examine the status of labor-saving mechanization in U.S. fruit and vegetable harvesting. Fruit and vegetable harvest mechanization has several potential advantages: reduced harvest costs, eliminate problems associated with finding good quality harvest labor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008499954
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The United States and the Arab Spring
Kivimäki, Timo - In: Journal of Human Security 9 (2013) 1, pp. 15-26
US foreign policy in the Middle East has traditionally helped governments to limit the political participation of … Islamists, communists, enemies of Israel and populations that could be hostile to the US oil interests. This way the US economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011154562
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The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance
Prasad, Eswar S. - Princeton University Press
remain the cornerstone of global finance for the foreseeable future. Marshaling a range of arguments and data, and drawing on … foreign financial capital locked up in dollar assets, including U.S. government securities, other countries now have a strong …—including the growing economic influence of emerging markets, the currency wars, the complexities of the China-U.S. relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082746
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The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance
Prasad, Eswar S. - Princeton University Press
remain the cornerstone of global finance for the foreseeable future. Marshaling a range of arguments and data, and drawing on … foreign financial capital locked up in dollar assets, including U.S. government securities, other countries now have a strong …—including the growing economic influence of emerging markets, the currency wars, the complexities of the China-U.S. relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082749
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The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance
Prasad, Eswar S. - Princeton University Press
remain the cornerstone of global finance for the foreseeable future. Marshaling a range of arguments and data, and drawing on … foreign financial capital locked up in dollar assets, including U.S. government securities, other countries now have a strong …—including the growing economic influence of emerging markets, the currency wars, the complexities of the China-U.S. relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082772
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How Capitalists Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis
Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2013
accumulation and economic growth are two sides of the same process. Accumulation generates growth and growth fuels accumulation, so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645024