The focus of the paper is on evaluating the productivity gap between rural and urban locations in the UK using micro data. We build a structural model of the unobservable productivity emphasising the link between productivity and spatial density of economic activity and adapt the semi-parametric...

A new command has been developed implementing a previously validated tool for describing bronchiolitis severity. Bronchiolitis is one of the most common causes of hospital admission for infants and it is widely studied. This command classifies predicted severity of illness using an ordinal...

In this paper, we have highlighted the potential implications of a move in the U.S. to T+1 on European financial institutions. We explain that while many European institutions feel that they are sheltered from this move, those that undertake trading activities in the U.S. will find that they...

Studies on the three types of process improvement programmes (Continuous Improvement, Reengineering and Benchmarking) have appeared many times in the literature. These studies suggest that certain organizational variables act as enablers and their presence or absence can significantly influence...

This paper focuses on the establishment of forest plantations on bare lands and marginal agricultural lands: a multifunctional afforestation programme for Ukraine is elaborated. The multiple forest functions are limited in this research to wood production and erosion prevention. Ukraine is faced...

In this paper, we address governance by analysing the relevant institutions and investigating their impact on economic and environmental performance in Ukrainian forestry. The research questions are: how does the transition to a market economy affect the forest institutions and what are the...

This article presents an overview of the development of Russian agricultural enterprises in 1990-2001. The multi-layered structure of agriculture represented by different categories of non-commercial and commercial producers requires a clear distinction of policies with respect to their targets...

A unified framework for analyzing the short-term production relationships between outputs and inputs on Dutch dairy farms before and after the introduction of the milk quota system is presented. It is derived from duality theory and estimated using an incomplete panel of Dutch dairy farms. The...

The EC dairy model was developed to simulate the long-term effects of various dairy policies. Its basic elements are a supply section, a demand section, and balance equations. It pays special attention to the aggregation of the different dairy products. The model is intended to examine questions...

The presence of investment cycles demonstrates the long-run policy of firms investing in particular periods (investment spikes) with lower or zero investment levels in between, which contradicts the smooth pattern predicted by a convex adjustment model. This paper investigates the spells between...