"In Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE Matthew Adam Cobb examines the development of commercial exchange between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean worlds from the Roman annexation of Egypt (30 BCE) up to the early third century CE. Among the issues...

This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R&D used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D...

Die Autoren stellen das Konzept Fair Trade aus der Perspektive nachhaltiger Entwicklung dar. Die jüngste Vergangenheit hat gezeigt, dass sich der internationale Handel zwar weiterhin durch eine hohe Dynamik auszeichnet. Viele Entwicklungsländer und besonders bestimmte Bevölkerungsgruppen in...