The search for an appropriate methodology to investigate the relation between R&D investment, knowledge stock and productivity growth is the main purpose of the paper. In analogy with physical assets, we present a model of knowledge capital formation which allows the calculation of the relevant...

Little over a year since the death of Secondo (‘Dino’) Tarditi, the Economics Faculty of the University of Siena organized an international conference,“La liberalizzazione del commercio internazionale e le politiche dell’Unione Europea per l'agricoltura e i consumatori” (Liberalizing...

1. Introduction and overview / Susan Senior Nello and Pierpaolo Pierani -- 2. A CAP for the whole community / John S. Marsh -- 3. Consumers and the political economy of European agricultural and food policies / Johan F. M. Swinnen, Martha Negash and Thijs Vandemoortele -- 4. Sustainable food...