Zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen: Recent submissions
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Label performance and the willingness to pay for fair trade coffee: A cross-national perspective
(2008-10)In this paper we investigate how label information detailing the performance of the Fair Trade labeling program with respect to coffee affect consumers’ willingness to pay in the United States and in Germany. We provide ... -
Scope and sustainability of cooperation in transboundary water sharing of the Volta river
(2008-09)The paper explores the scope and sustainability of a self-enforcing cooperative agreement in the framework of a game theoretic model, where the upstream and downstream country, Burkina Faso and Ghana respectively in the ... -
The impact of location on crop choice and rural livelihood: Evidences from villages in northern Ethiopia
(2008-07)This paper attempts to demonstrate how location of an agricultural economic activity in relation to urban centers determines households' decision to allot their agricultural land to the production of either staple crop or ... -
Bioenergy and rural development in developing countries: A review of existing studies
(2008-06)Four broad types of studies on rural development and bioenergy technologies are identified. Within these four types, this discussion paper presents a number of existing studies which are most relevant in the context of ... -
Shadow pricing market access: A trade benefit function approach
(2008-01)Appropriate assessment of the social value of market access is at the core of a broad range of inquiries in trade research. A selection include: the appraisal of industry-level production and consumption distortions due ... -
On the evolutionary edge of migration as an assortative mating device
(2008-02)In a haystack-type representation of a heterogeneous population that is evolving according to a payoff structure of a prisoner’s dilemma game, migration is modeled as a process of “swapping” individuals between heterogeneous ... -
The effects of the Dutch: disease in Russia
(2004-01)This paper shows how the Dutch Disease has affected the Russian economy since the start of the transition in the early 1990s. Four symptoms have been detected, namely: 1) a real exchange rate appreciation, 2) a temporary ... -
Impacts of community health insurance schemes on health care provision in rural Tanzania
(2004-01)In 1996 the Tanzanian government initiated community health insurance schemes to improve the access to health care and to protect people against the financial cost of illness in an environment with shrinking budgets for ... -
Nature's blessing or nature's curse: The political economy of transition in resource-based economies
(2004-01)This paper analyses the reform progress made in the energy-rich states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (AKTU for short) and contrasts their development ... -
Gains of regional cooperation: Environmental problems and solutions
(2004-01)Cooperation between the states of the Caucasus and Central Asia is paramount in solving the region’s environmental problems. Given the acute socio-economic difficulties they face, their slow progress is understandable. ... -
Resource abundance, governance and economic performance in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
(2004-01)This paper analyses the connection between resource wealth, governance and economic performance in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Since independence, both countries have remained heavily resource-dependent and they have had ... -
Nutrient flows in agricultural production and international trade: Ecology and policy issues
(2004-01)This paper addresses the issue of environmental and ecological impacts of nutrient flows within and between countries by reviewing and presenting data on nutrient balances and global nutrient movements. The results for ... -
Gauging the potential for social unrest
(2009-09)It stands to reason that social unrest does not erupt out of the blue. Although there are a great many reasons why social dismay might descend into social disorder, only few yardsticks or indices can plausibly be used to ... -
Reasons for remitting
(2009-08)This paper presents a set of reflections on what gives rise to remittances, which constitute a major part of the impact of migration on economic development in the migrants’ own countries. The collage of reasons presented ... -
Measuring biodiversity: an axiomatic evaluation of measures based on genetic data
(2009-06)Biodiversity measurement is necessary to evaluate conservation alternatives and understand how to maximize biodiversity returns on conservation budgets. In the economics literature, most studies focus on species level ... -
Cooperation in transboundary water sharing under climate change
(2009-06)As multiple countries share a river, the likelihood of a water resource conflict from climate change could be higher between countries. In this paper, we demonstrate how countries can cooperate in transboundary water sharing ... -
Preferences for domestic water services in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa
(2009-05)Using household survey data, this study investigates preferences for domestic water services in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa. Water is a relatively scarce resource in South Africa that is distributed ... -
Industrial water demand analysis in the middle olifants sub-basin of South Africa: The case of mining
(2009-04)This paper seeks to determine water demand of the mining sector in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa. Despite the growing economic importance of mining in the area, only little is known about its water demand ... -
Economic analysis of water supply cost structure in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa
(2009-04)Using data gathered from the National Treasury of South Africa, we examine the structure of water supply costs and tariffs of Water Service Authorities (WSAs) in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa. Using the ... -
An evolutionary edge of knowing less (or: on the "curse" of global information)
(2009-03)Consider a population of farmers who live around a lake. Each farmer engages in trade with his two adjacent neighbors. The trade is governed by a prisoner’s dilemma “rule of engagement.” A farmer’s payoff is the sum of the ...
