Agricultural price volatility is "bad". But where does it come from? Remedies are completely different for "endogenous" or "exogenous" fluctuations. The recent crisis seems to indicate that exogenous remedies have been applied to endogenous fluctuations.

This study focuses on testing the relationship between income inequality and growth within U.S. counties, and the channels through which such effects are observed. The study tests three hypotheses: (1) income inequality has an inverse relationship with growth; (2) regional growth adjustments are...

A dichotomous-choice contingent-valuation survey was conducted in the State of Mississippi (USA) to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for three restoration options being considered for the state’s barrier islands. Random-effects probit models were estimated, and parametric and non-parametric...

Kérdőív segítségével meghatároztuk a gabonaágazat dél-alföldi szereplőinek egymáshoz fűződő viszonyainak jellegét, szorosságát. Megállapítható, hogy a ga-bonaágazatban létezik a földrajzi közelségen alapuló együttműködés a Dél-Alföldön. Ennek kialakulásában az...

Sustainability has become the boiling point of theoretical business discussions. At first it was only a concept everybody was talking about but no one knew how it should be materialized. Now we can understand how and why companies are inclined to follow the principle. This gives the policy...

Proceedings based on a talk given by Ted Helvoigt, mainly PowerPoints

The overall aim of this study is to empirically investigate the cost structure of a management agreement typeagri-environmental instrument and to identify factors for cost variation over space and time. We control for theactual level of compliance by using compliance weighted average scheme cost...

Most terrestrial biological invasions occur in landscapes comprising numerous, independently managed properties. Thus, control of invasion spread generally depends on the choices of many managers, each deciding the extent to control invasions on their property. Here we develop a...

Income inequality reflects resource allocations, and has important implications for public policy and institutional design. This paper investigates the factorsdetermining inequality. This is especially relevant in Chile where income distribution has not improved in the past decades. We...

This paper accomplishes two objectives. First, this paper estimates a model for oil wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico using specific time series models. In the second objective, the number of wells drilled are applied to the COMPAS model for Louisiana. Wells drilled are treated as final demand...