Globalization and the expansion of world wine trade have caused a wine boom that together with agricultural subsidies have made fluctuations in wine inventories a more critical issue. In the case of domestic and international wine markets, little is known about intertemporal inventory...

The nonlinear testing and modeling of economic and financial time series has increased substantially in recent years, enabling us to better understand market and price behavior, risk and the formation of expectations. Such tests have also been applied to commodity market behavior, providing...

This survey attempts to provide an overview of the major issues concerning economic interactions between environmental and trade policies. Such a review is necessary because of the pressure that the accelerated pace of globalisation is placing on environment and trade. Not only is world trade...

Econometric methods provide an approach for modeling supply processes where time delays, lags, and capital formation are important Supply models of this type can be statistical or econometric, the latter involving distributed lag.

Process models represent a particular class of engineering-economic models. Their purpose is to analyze commodity and transformation processes and the economic structures that control and influence these procedures. The theory of these models is introduced, followed by an example from the...

Conventional linear programming modeling approaches for several decades now have been extended to include variants of basic nonlinear programming algorithms. Considered here are elementary spatial programming, quadratic programming, mixed integer programming, and linear complementarity...