Studies assessing impacts of climate change on forests are numerous, but most evaluate potential tree growth for current and future conditions at discrete time intervals, which is generally insufficient for developing short to medium term forest policies and strategies. Analysis of forest growth...

Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the adoption of agricultural technologies, most studies...

Financial regulators are subject to both sector specific quality regulation principles as well as broader principles of good regulation, all defined by international and European institutions. Ex ante and ex post regulatory impact analyses, including burden reduction assessments, are among the...

Why do people postpone the choice of a new telecommunication supplier or bank which offers better conditions? Why choose clearly risky investments? These and many other examples of departures from rational choices, so-called biases in judgment, question the assumption that people and firms are...

Come incrementare l'efficacia degli interventi di "advocacy" al fine di favorire la creazione di un contesto regolatorio pro-concorrenziale, obiettivo che accomuna regolatori di settore e autorità antitrust? Al fine di rispondere a questa domanda sono analizzati e comparati tre strumenti: l'uso...

This report gives an overview on the Ukrainian agri-food sector and provides an outlook for the developments in agricultural markets for Ukraine, focussing on the main agricultural commodities. For the purpose of the study a detailed dataset and modelling structure for the main agricultural...

This study presents and discusses the status of integrated personal health systems (IPHS) in France. It aims to illustrate through case studies the patient and health monitoring systems that are available, the level of implementation of these systems, the impact they have on the general...

The main objective of this report is to assess the GHG emission reduction potential of a selected number of policy options and to quantify related production and economic impacts for the agricultural sector in the EU. Therefore the possible future evolution of agricultural GHG emissions in the...

This report contains a summary and the presentations of the expert workshop 'Commodity Market Development in Europe – Outlook', held in October 2011 in Brussels. The workshop was held in order to present and discuss the preliminary results of the European Commission's outlook on EU...

This study presents and discusses the status of integrated personal health systems (IPHS) in Germany. It aims to illustrate through case studies the patient and health monitoring systems that are available, the level of implementation of these systems, the impact they have on the general...