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A Modern Tragedy of the Non-Commons: Agro-Industrial Change and Equity in Brazil's Babassu Palm Zone
May, Peter H. - 1986
use (chiefly pasture) conversion and technical change in both agriculture and babassu industries have redefined property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468356
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442826
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Economic uncertainty and divisive politics: evidence from the "dos Españas"
García-Uribe, Sandra; Mueller, Hannes; Sanz, Carlos
Este artículo utiliza las hemerotecas de dos periódicos para estimar el índice de incertidumbre sobre las políticas económicas —Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU)—en España en 1905-1945, un período de gran polarización política. Encontramos que el estallido de la Guerra Civil en 1936...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012525467
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HOW DID POLICY INTERVENTIONS IN WHEAT EXPORT MARKETS IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE DURING THE FOOD CRISIS 2007/2008 INFLUENCE WORLD MARKET PRICE TRANSMISSION?
Goetz, Linde; Glauben, Thomas; Bruemmer, Bernhard - 2010
This paper investigates the impacts of export controls in Russia and Ukraine on wheat worldmarket price transmission … during the 2007/2008 global food crisis. Russia and Ukraine aimedto reduce wheat exports induced by extraordinarily high … Ukraine. Although instability increased on the worldmarkets itself, we have shown that the increase in the market instability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442718
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Disorganization in the process of transition firm-level evidence from Ukraine
Konings, Jozef; Walsh, Patrick P. - 1999
Most post-communist economies are characterized by an initial collapse inaggregate output. Blanchard and Kremer (1997) and Roland and Verdier (1997)have recently modelled supply-side distortions — disorganization in the links of production — that can lead to a short-term output contraction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475684
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Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects
Konings, Jozef; Kupets, Olga; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2002
This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique data set of more … connection with other evidence we infer from this that Ukraine is only at the beginning of the restructuring process. The most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476705
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in “gradualist” Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476797
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Wage Ceilings and Floors: The Gender Gap in Ukraine’s Transition
Ganguli, Ina; Terrell, Katherine - 2005
across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and after Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476952