Vorzeitig defekte bzw. nicht mehr voll funktionsfähige Produkte sind ein Ärgernis für Verbraucher. Ausgewiesene Experten aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Verbänden werden das vielschichtige Problem der Obsoleszenz aus dem Blickwinkel unterschiedlicher Disziplinen beleuchten. Ziel des...

Topics: - Restructuring agricultural production and rural landscape - Land reforms, privatization and consolidation - Governance of the agricultural sector and water use - Climate change and agricultural productivity - Credits, insurance and governmental financial support programs - Developments...

Workshop contents Part 1: GAMS, Economic Equilibrium and Mixed Complementarity Part 2: CGE Models – Structure, Functional Forms and Calibration Part 3: International Trade, Climate Policy and GTAPinGAMS Part 4: Advanced Trade Theories and Climate Policy Applications

Trade and the International Organization of Production - Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University) 1. Trade, Firm Structure, Offshoring and Outsourcing 1.1. Firm Organization and Trade 1.2. Multinationals 1.3. Vertical Specialization 1.4. Task Trade, Offshoring and Outsorcing

Die Verhandlungen zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und der Europäischen Union über ein Transatlantisches Freihandels- und Investitionsabkommen (TTIP) werden seit geraumer Zeit kritisch in der Öffentlichkeit debattiert. Die USA und die EU, die zusammen ungefähr die Hälfte der...

ETSG conferences are open to any researcher with an interest in international trade issues. Everyone can submit a paper for presentation.

Topics: - EU and WTO trade liberalisation, trade defence instruments and trade controls - Regulations and policies on anti-dumping, anti-subsidies and anti-circumvention - WTO dispute settlement - EU trade defence sanctions

Topics: - EU and WTO trade liberalisation, trade defence instruments and trade controls - Regulations and policies on anti-dumping, anti-subsidies and anti-circumvention - WTO dispute settlement - EU trade defence sanctions

The theme for ICAR 2014 is Anti consumption and consumer wellbeing. In the last two decades of the new millennia, we have seen consumer wellbeing affected in two vastly opposing ways. On the one hand, we see an ever increasing conglomeration of corporations, leading to larger, more ubiquitous,...

Researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, geography, political science, public health, psychology and sociology) who use the SOEP or the SOEP part of the Cross-National Equivalent Files (CNEF) are invited to submit an abstract. We encourage in particular submissions of papers...