The paper investigates theoretically and empirically the role of courts for contract enforcement in transition agriculture. In a survey of 306 Polish hog farmers conducted in 1999, only 38.5% of them reported to believe that they could use courts to enforce contracts with their most important...

This paper presents a politico-economic analysis of decision making about the US sugar programme. It analyz.es the linkages between the economic surpluses of market participants and the policy response via the level of target prices and import quotas. The legislative decisions of the sugar...

The role of capital formation in the process of economic development has been critically appraised by economists and policy-makers. 1 Identifying sources of capital and regulating the rate of capital growth are essential tasks of economic planning in developing nations. Economic growth models,...

This paper opens a new field in quantitative policy analysis by developing a methodology for the construction and simulation of computable non-separable household models. Non-separability originates in market failures and in a binding credit constraint, both of which transform the products and...

International pollution poses special problems for economic analysis. National governments can, in principle, be successful in improving environmental quality when the sources of pollution are located within the government's jurisdiction. This is not possible, however, when pollution originates...