Worldwide, the indelible image of the Netherlands is the tulip. But the tulip is not alone: flowers of all kinds have long been a key part of both the Dutch identity and the Dutch economy, and in Holland Flowering, Andrew Gebhardt offers a dazzling tour of Dutch flower culture, from the earliest...

Until recently, most grape-based wine was consumed close to where it was produced, and mostly that was in Europe. The latest globalization wave has changed that forever. Now more than two-fifths of all wine consumed globally is produced in another country. Europe's dominance of global wine trade...

1. Introduction -- 2. Does an employment protection law matter? A panel data analysis of selected OECD countries, 1985-2012 -- 3. Network of legal citations: an analysis of some supreme court decisions on land acquisition in India -- 4. Surrogacy Contracting and Intermediation -- 5....

This book discusses history of mental construction of the boundary between India and Bangladesh. It investigates how and when a boundary was constructed between the people, and discusses how the mental construction preceded the physical construction. It also examines the perils faced by those...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editor and Authors -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Why Is There Such a Large Gap between the Reality and the Potential? -- Can We Begin to Imagine the Possibilities? Have There Been Any...

Growth models of the second generation type, e.g. the Jones (1995) or Young (1998) model, all exhibit a so called weak scale effect in per capita production, i.e. larger economies should have a higher per capita production than smaller economies. However, in an open economy context the scale of...

Scale effects in per capita production are an outcome of many theoretical economic models like second generation growth models, models of the new trade theory or the new economic geography. The prediction is that larger economies should have a higher per capita production than smaller economies....

This paper presents a dynamic two sector, two skill groups model of endogenous skill and sector specific technological change. The sectors refer to a high-tech” and a low-tech” sector of an economy. The direction of technological change is driven by market forces determined by the skill...

The global food and agricultural trade network is crucial for food security. Shocks such as those posed by extreme weather events, conflicts, pandemics, and economic crises can test the resilience of the trade network to the sudden interruption of trade flows. Depending on the level of...

Purpose Research based on Bangladesh-US trade data examines the Heckscher-Ohlin model and the Rybczynski hypothesis in this study. Design/methodology/approach Ordinary least square (OLS) techniques are used in this study, which relies on data from the NBER International Trade and Geography Data...