The negative impact of climatic order (critical insufficiency of atmospheric precipitation) from 2022, as well as the military conflict in Ukraine, continue to exert extraordinary pressure on the economic efficiency of the agricultural sector of the Republic of Moldova. At the same time, the...

The negative impact of climatic order (critical insufficiency of atmospheric precipitation) from 2022, as well as the military conflict in Ukraine, continue to exert extraordinary pressure on the economic efficiency of the agricultural sector of the Republic of Moldova. At the same time, the...

Nach Jahrzehnten in denen der Agrarsektor für Investoren kaum von Interesse war, ist seit 2007/08 ein erheblicher Anstieg in der weltweiten Nachfrage nach Agrarland zu beobachten. Der Mangel an sicheren und gewinnbringenden Anlageformen in Zeiten der Finanzkrise sowie der steigende Bedarf an...

Secure property rights are considered a key determinant of economic development. The evaluation of the causal effects of property rights, however, is a difficult task as their allocation is typically endogenous. To overcome this identification problem, we exploit a natural experiment in the...

We study the effects of in utero exposure to climate change induced high ocean salinity levels on children's anthropometric outcomes. Leveraging six geo-referenced waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys merged with gridded data on ocean salinity, ocean chemistry and weather...

Secure property rights are considered a key determinant of economic development. The evaluation of the causal effects of property rights, however, is a difficult task as their allocation is typically endogenous. To overcome this identification problem, we exploit a natural experiment in the...

We replicate the analysis of Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Shargrodsky's (GS) influential 2010 article ‘Property rights for the poor: effects of land titling'. GS use a natural experiment in a poor urban area of Buenos Aires to find that land titling increases housing investment, reduces...

Nach Jahrzehnten in denen der Agrarsektor für Investoren kaum von Interesse war, ist seit 2007/08 ein erheblicher Anstieg in der weltweiten Nachfrage nach Agrarland zu beobachten. Der Mangel an sicheren und gewinnbringenden Anlageformen in Zeiten der Finanzkrise sowie der steigende Bedarf an...