The country farm structure is based on different specializations and distribution of farms in different size groups; and the productivity growth in each particular group can be different from that reflecting a mean performance of entire sector. In order to improve targeting of policy measures...

The ever-growing livestock industry in the Texas High Plains has a significant impact on water usage and groundwater resources throughout the region.  The groundwater sources are depleting at an excessive rate and have low-recharge while precipitation is scarce in this region.  The regional...

Russia is currently experiencing a turnaround in its energy and climate policy. In this paper, we analyse the effects of different environmental and energy policies on the Russian economy and the state of the environment at both federal and regional level. The core SUSTRUS model augmented by the...

We use a human–subjects experiment to investigate how bargaining outcomes are affected by changes in the bargainers’ disagreement payoffs. Subjects play one of two bargaining games – a standard simultaneous–move Nash demand game, or a related unstructured bargaining game – against...

In the case of the French overseas departments (DOM), particularly of Guadeloupe, which are at the dawn of the experiment reaching reforms of economic policies, development of a simulation tool such as a macroeconomic CGE appears naturally as a highly desirable requirement. This recourse to the...

The existing relation between the increase in public revenues and the establishment of effective anti-poverty programs is not always confirmed in the short term as studied by Filmer and al. (1998) and Gauthier (2007). With this observation and in a national and international context of poverty...

In recognition of the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) and its important role to enhance the productivity of economic sectors and improving the welfare level of its citizens, the government of Egypt is developing both medium and long term plans to cope with the...

For many years, empirical research in economics concentrated predominantly on the effectiveness of monetary policy and less on fiscal policy. But developments like the Balance Budget Amendment in the USA, the single currency union in Europe or the world economic crisis in 2009 has raised the...

Developed economies are facing a problem of declining competitiveness on a global scale. The perspectives for sustaining the world economic leadership are associated with stimulating technological progress through innovations and investments to R&D. This is a challenge for the private sector but...