, risk, credit-market imperfections and scale-economies associated with mechanization that small-scale farming is inefficient … minimum farm scale is 20 acres. …

The five contributions in this legal working paper discuss various aspects of investment arbitration. They were … originally presented at the ECB legal colloquium on ‘The new challenges raised by investment arbitration for the EU legal order …

After fifteen years, NAFTA has been subject to many evaluations from different perspectives, including environmental …, agriculture, manufacturing and international transportation. In these sectors, the CEC concludes that results only indicate a …

agricultural investment, land valuation and access to credit in Tanzania. Results show that while there are no detectable effects … of formal, private land property rights (written documentation of ownership) on agricultural investment, land ownership …

realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a … the main instrument, that the return to agricultural investment depends substantially on the conditions under which it is …-invest, by a factor of three, when we compare actual levels of investments to the optimal investment level that maximizes …