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Assessing Kosovo's horticultural potential: the market for fruit and vegetables on the Balkans

Fischer, Christian - 2004

Kosovo had been a net exporter - at least of some - fruit and vegetables in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia before the civil war. Current reconstruction efforts therefore focus on restoring the past horticultural potential of the now independent province. This paper analyses the...

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Which type of crop insurance for Kazakhstan? Empirical results

Heidelbach, Olaf; Bokusheva, Raushan; Kussaiynov, Talgat - 2004

Risk plays an important role in agricultural decision-making, particularly in those regions that are remarkably exposed to natural hazards and underdeveloped input and output markets. This is especially true for crop production in CIS countries where many farms have to deal with low liquidity...

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Are cross-country studies of the Environmental Kuznets Curve misleading? New evidence from time series data for Germany

Egli, Hannes - 2001

In recent years, extensive literature on the Environmental Kuznets Curve leading to optimistic policy conclusions has attracted great attention. However, the underlying cross-section estimations are not very reliable. Accordingly, this contribution uses time series data for a single country with...

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Revisiting Worst-case DEA for Composite Indicators

Athanassoglou, Stergios - 2015

Composite indicators are becoming increasingly infuential tools of environmental assessment and advocacy. Nonetheless, their use is controversial as they often rely on ad-hoc and theoretically problematic assumptions regarding normalization, aggregation, and weighting. Nonparametric data...

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Are cross-country studies of the Environmental Kuznets Curve misleading? New evidence frome time series data for Germany

Egli, Hannes - 2002

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Heterogeneous international agreements: If per capita emission levels matter

Lange, Andreas - 2002

This paper studies the incentives for international cooperation if (some) countries prefer a more equitable distribution of per capita emission levels. The impact of such an equity preference is analyzed first for a bilateral, and then for a multilateral environmental problem. We show that -...

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Politics and Consumer Prices in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

The motivations of the Arab Spring that have marked the history of humanity over the last few months have left political economists, researchers, governments and international policymakers pondering over how the quality of political institutions affect consumer welfare in terms of commodity...

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Large-Scale Asset Purchases: Impact on Commodity Prices and International Spillover Effects

Kozicki, Sharon; Santor, Eric; Suchanek, Lena - 2015

Prices of commodities, including metals, energy and agricultural products, rose markedly over the 2009 - 2010 period. Some observers have attributed a significant part of this increase in commodity prices to the U.S. Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchase (LSAP) programs. Using event-study...

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Economic Impact of CO2 Emissions and Carbon Tax in Electric Vehicle Society in Toyohashi City in Japan

Miyata, Yuzuru; Shibusawa, Hiroyuki; Fujii, Tomoaki - 2015

In this paper, we explore the economic impact of promotion and realization of an electric vehicle society (EVS) in Toyohashi City in Japan. More concretely, this paper emphasizes a computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling approach to evaluate the following issues: economic impacts of...

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'Two decades after the war' - the management of international commons

Coelho, Manuel - 2015

was a special year for fisheries in Portugal. Never before and never again, was the sector so under the eye of the media … fisheries management and how they reflected in practice in the turbot war, are presented. In section 3 we reflect on how the … arising from the usual combination of the basic model of fisheries management with Game Theory. In empirical terms we draw …

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