Quantification of welfare changes due to trade liberalisation play a crucial role for political decision making. However, meaningful comparisons of simulation results from different sources are difficult. Often significant differences in simulated gains from liberalisation do not serve to...

The Israeli citrus export sector was liberalized in 1991 with the aim to increase citrus growers'income and to improve overall efficiency of the international citrus marketing channel. However,the former government export monopoly's activities were mainly taken over by four largecompanies...

The Israeli citrus export sector was liberalized in 1991 with the aim to increase citrus growers’ income and to improve overall efficiency of the international citrus marketing channel. However, the former government export monopoly’s activities were mainly taken over by four large companies...

We compare two regime-dependent econometric models for price transmission analysis, namely the threshold vector error correction model and Markov-switching vector error correction model. We first provide a detailed characterization of each of the models which is followed by a comprehensive...

‘Productivity and efficiency growth enhances competitiveness’. Similarly formulatedstatements are common in the literature on the economic performance of firms,industries and nations. This conventional perception in the economic literature,originating from trade and growth theory models,...

The analysis of price transmission in transition countries is complicated by their often unstable policy environments. We utilise a Markov-switching vector error correction model (MSVECM) to allow for multiple regime shifts in the price relationship between wheat and wheat flour in Ukraine from...

For most countries in southern Africa, food security has been addressed through self-sufficiency, traditionally attained through widespread government involvement in the input and output markets for major food commodities. Food policies through the 1980’s have been characterized by input...

"Marketecture: A Simulation-Based Framework for Studying Experimental Deregulated Power Market," Proceedings of the 6th IAEE European Energy Conference. Held at ETH Zurich: 2-3 September 2004

Although rice accounts for approximately forty-four percent of land under cultivation and forty-six percent of caloric intake in Madagascar, most farmers cannot produce enough rice to feed their families. Total rice production increased little in the country during the 1990s, and yields were...