Gegenstand der Untersuchung ist die gesamtwirtschaftliche Profitabilität der Pflanzenzüchtungsforschung in Deutschland. Ausgangspunkt der Analyse ist die Entwicklung der totalen Faktorproduktivität in Deutschland. Diese wurde mit Hilfe eines Indexzahlenansatzes dekomponiert in die Einflüsse...

The paper provides a methodology which is suitable for the analysis of the social cost of disease and the benefits and cost of health intervention by integrating public health analysis and economics. The approach developed in the paper is applied to food-borne diarrhea in Rwanda. The results...

We analyze the economic effects of plant breeding research in Germany. In addition to market effects, for the first time also effects of reduced CO2 emissions due to productivity increases are being quantified. The analysis shows that investments in German plant breeding research in the period...