For quite some time long-only index funds have been suspected of being responsible for price increases in agricultural futures markets. This suspicion has prompted demands to drastically limit long-only index funds' scope of activity. Such demands and their underlying diagnoses, however,...

This two-volume book provides an important overview to EU economic and policy issues related to the development of the bioeconomy. What have been the recent trends and what are the implications for future economic development and policy making? Where does EU bioeconomy policy sit within an...

1. Introduction -- 2. Bioeconomy Economics and Policy -- 3. European Integration: A Historical Overview -- 4. European Agriculture and the Bioeconomy: A Historical Overview -- 5. EU Institutions and Decision Making Processes -- 6. EU Budgetary Politics and Its Implications for the Bioeconomy --...

The emerging concept of bioeconomy offers several opportunities to address societal challenges. The bioeconomy is mainly driven by advances in microbiology, which can be applied to various processes that use biological resources by shifting consumer preferences and by yielding new insights into...