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Do Oil Price Increases Cause Higher Food Prices?

Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

U.S. retail food price increases in recent years may seem large in nominal terms, but after adjusting for inflation have been quite modest even after the change in U.S. biofuel policies in 2006. In contrast, increases in the real prices of corn, soybeans, wheat and rice received by U.S. farmers...

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Investors’ Rights Protection on a Global Financial Market

Barna, Flavia-Mirela; Nachescu, Miruna-Lucia - In: International Journal of Academic Research in Business … 4 (2014) 10, pp. 64-80

In the last decades, we have been faced with a rapid development and sophistication of the investing methods that investors have at their disposal. The emergence of new micro and macroeconomic risks that have affected the markets stability, impose the re-analyzing of the prudential regulations...

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THE ROLE OF SMALL BUSINESS IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN ECONOMY

Stan, Stefania Anca - In: Studies and Scientific Researches. Economics Edition (2014) 19

Small businesses provide catalytic benefits to the economy. They contribute to national output, and to the society as a whole, beyond the spending and profit they generate. The role of SMEs is crucial for the European economic recovery – their number, employment capacity and value added...

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The organic farming development features within the Ukrainian Polissia conditions

Dankevych, V. - In: Balanced Nature Using 5 (2013) 4, pp. 71-75

land use implementation in the context of globalization have been developed …

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Global development trends of the agricultural lands market

Dankevych, V. Ye. - In: Balanced Nature Using 5 (2014) 1, pp. 120-125

This paper deals with current trends in the market of agricultural land. It was found that under global changes the processes of purchase and sale of the world land resources are actively begun, that is caused by several reasons: rapid industrial and agricultural development in many countries;...

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Service offshoring: A challenge for employment? Evidence from Germany

Schöller, Deborah - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2007

Besides material offshoring, economists have started to analyze the impact of service offshoring on domestic employment. Services are of particular interest since their significance has grown not only in terms of quantity, but also of qualitative understanding. One decade ago, most services were...

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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2010

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization …-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity rights significantly and robustly increase with globalization and …

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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness

Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012), pp. 1-39

This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment, 1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to...

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Exports, unemployment and the welfare state

Janeba, Eckhard - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2007

The paper analyzes the labor market effects of globalization when foreign market entry is costly and risky. With … cannot easily switch industries and wages are inflexible in the short run, globalization tends to increase unemployment. In … popular views about the globalization effects in the U.S. and continental Europe. The results also suggest that the welfare …

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Can China Harness Globalization to Reap Carbon Savings? Modeling International Technology Diffusion in a Multi-region Framework

Jin, Wei - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

This paper examines the effect of globalization, particularly international technology diffusion (TD), on China … diffusion (via import and FDI) in the long run; (2) Trade and FDI liberalization (economic globalization) facilitates economic … of foreign TD barriers (knowledge globalization) acquires the benefits of domestic carbon savings (technique effect); (4 …

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