Die Weltwirtschaft expandiert weiterhin in moderatem Tempo. Die im Frühjahr etwas schnellere Gangart scheint sich im Sommer wieder verlangsamt zu haben. In den Vereinigten Staaten verliert die Konjunktur nach und nach an Schwung. Gleichzeitig bleibt die konjunkturelle Dynamik in Europa gering,...

Changes in the American lifestyle are putting more individuals at risk due to the declining quality of their diets. In the last 20 years, the readily available high-fat foods (e.g., "fast foods") combined with the decreased caloric requirements due to lower physical activity levels is assumed to...

This paper builds on the work of BUSCHENA and GRAY (1999) to look at the effects of mergers in the North American malting industry as ten firms in two separated markets merged into four firms in an integrated market. We explore the sensitivity of our results to the assumption of market power. We...

This paper uses cross-state and cross-regional time series to estimate the effect of the variation in shares of alcohol beverage types on traffic fatalities in young people, with particular emphasis on consumption of beer versus spirits, or "hard liquor". Depending on the specification,...

The US Tariff-Rate Quota System for CheeseA tariff-rate quota (TRQ) is a two-tier tariff. The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture provides for the transformation of remaining import quotas into TRQs in order to eliminate quantity restricting import barriers to trade. However, more often than...