We analyse river sharing games in which a set of agents located along a river shares the available water. Using coalition theory, we find that the potential benefits of water trade may not be sufficient to make all agents in the river cooperate and acknowledge property rights as a prerequisite...

Den diesjährigen Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften hat der Inder Amartya Sen für seine grundlegenden Beiträge zur Wohlfahrtsökonomik, zur Einkommensverteilung und zur Analyse von Hunger und Armut erhalten. Einen Überblick über die Arbeiten von Amartya Sen gibt Dr. Hans-Peter Weikard.

This paper surveys the recent literature on the political economy of the formation of international environmental agreements. The survey covers theoretical modelling approaches and empirical studies including experimental work. Central to our survey is the question how the political process...

In their Food Security Assessment, the U.S. Department of Agriculture uses income data and a cross-country Engel curve for food energy (energy—income curve) to estimate distribution-sensitive food gaps of developing countries. In a recent Review of Agricultural Economics paper, Senauer and Sur...