International Economics

Models of International Economics

Essays in International Economics

The Economics of International Conferences

I deally, an international conference provides a meeting place where the participants can present and discuss new ideas, research topics, and results. Exposure to state-of-the-art work should help to identify interesting research tracks for today and define new directions for the future. While attendees should get an introduction to high-quality research, conferences should give presenters the ...

The Economics of International Aid

This paper presents an overview of the economics of international aid, highlighting the historical literature and the contemporary debates. It reviews the “trade-theoretic” and the “contract-theoretic” analytical literature, and the empirical and institutional literature. It demonstrates a great degree of continuity in the policy concerns of the aid discourse in the twentieth century, and shows...

International Society for Ecological Economics

Humanity’s impact on the biosphere’s structures (e.g., land cover) and functioning (e.g., biogeochemical cycles) is considerable. It exceeds natural variability in many cases (Crutzen and Steffen, 2003). Up to 83% of the global terrestrial biosphere have been classified as be­ ing under direct human influence, based on geographic proxies such as human population density, settlements, roads, agr...