The author shows with pooled OLS estimations based on transport margins from international social accounting data that investments in improved road infra¬structure have the potential to significantly reduce transport costs. However, this result can only be clearly confirmed for industrial...

Die Erwartungen an die Produktion von Kraftstoffen (Bioethanol und Biodiesel) aus nachwachsenden Rohstoffen waren hoch. Neben politisch-strategischen Zielen, hier ging es um die Reduzierung der Abhängigkeit von Ölimporten, waren auch ökologische und ökonomische Gesichtspunkte entscheidende...

Governments in many OECD countries intervene in agricultural markets to boost crop producer returns by applying tariffs to the prices of imported cereals and oilseeds and/or subsidising prices paid by foreign buyers. Historically, market price support attributable to such interventions comprised...

Using economic models and empirical analysis, this volume examines a wide range of agricultural and biofuel policy issues and their effects on American agricultural and related agrarian insurance markets. Beginning with a look at the distribution of funds by insurance programs—created to...