Fostering the uptake of heating technologies based on renewable resources is an important part of the EU energy policy. Yet, despite efforts to promote their diffusion, heating systems based on fossil fuels are still predominant. In order to better tailor energy policies to citizens preferences,...

This article offers a short introduction to the contributions of John Sutton to the analysis of market structure, with particular reference to the Bounds Approach. The article offers a presentation of a recent work of John Sutton, reproduced in this issue of Investigaciones Regionales, which...

The purpose of the present paper is to gauge the main trends in the evolution and structure of the EU trade in goods, mainly after 2004, starting from a quantitative analysis and comparing trends in the trade in goods with trends in the trade in services, where necessary. We focus on the trade...

Recent trade evolutions credit China with a large and growing market potential, and explain the increasing attractiveness of the Chinese market to foreign producers. In 2007 one tenth of internationally traded products were shipped to China. The present paper aims to determine the countries that...

World trade in food grains (wheat, rice, and wheat flour) more than doubled from 1962 to 1983, while the number of countries participating in world trade increased 85 percent. Food grain consumption has increased faster than production in most countries so more countries entered world trade for...

U.S. rice millers and repackagers distributed 33.7 million hundredweight (cwt) of rice in marketing year 1984/85 for three domestic uses: direct food, processed foods, and beer. This figure represents a 6.5-percent increase over shipments in 1982/83, the previous survey year. About half of U.S....

U.S. rice millers and repackagers distributed 38.3 million hundredweight (cwt) of rice in marketing year 1986/87 for three domestic uses: direct food, processed foods, and beer. This figure represents a 13.8-percent increase over shipments in 1984/85, the previous survey year. Between 45 and 50...