Food commodity price fluctuations have an important impact on poverty and food insecurity across the world. Conventional models have not provided a complete picture of recent price spikes in agricultural commodity markets, while there is an urgent need for appropriate policy responses. Perhaps new approaches are needed in order to better understand international spill-overs, the feedback betwee...

The paper discusses the properties of a rule for adjusting scores in limited overs cricket matches so as to preserve probabilities of victory across rain interruptions. Such a rule is argued to be attractive on grounds of fairness, intelligibility and tactical neutrality. Comparison with other rules also o¤ers a useful way of assessing the way in which application of such rules will a¤ect the f...

The effects of public policy programs which aim at internalizing spill-overs due to successful innovation are analyzed in a sequential double-sided moral hazard doublesided adverse selection framework. The central focus lies in analyzing their impact on contract design. We show that in our framework only ex post grants are a robust instrument for implementing the first-best situation, whereas t...

Leopardus colocolo, Leopardus geoffroyi, Leopardus tigrinus and Puma yagouaroundi are wild feline species endangered mainly due to habitat destruction and vehicle run overs. Seventeen felines hit on the roads were collected in Southern Brazil and examined for parasites. Cestodes were identified as Mesocestoides sp. The parasites were found in the small intestine of the hosts with a prevalence o...

M. Stachowicz, K. Granat, D. Nowak. Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclav, Poland The subjec t-matter of the paper c overs a v ery topical problem of possible r estriction of shor tcomings like poor knocking-out properties of castings and hard reclaimability of this type sandmixes by proper selecting their components and using innovative microwave heating. It was proved that the sandmixes s...

• We examine the open-economy implications of introduction a central bank digital currency (CBDC). analyze international transmission standard monetary policy and technology shocks in presence absence CDBC. The CBDC amplifies spill-overs to significant extent. magnitude these effects depends crucially on design Domestic issuance increases asymmetries system. A two-country DSGE model with (CBDC)...

We investigate the causal effect of parents’ linguistic skills on intergenerational language transmission in a bilingual society. consider case Catalonia, where two main speech communities, Spanish and Catalan, are similar sizes, both languages official, exploit natural experiment generated by language-in-education reform. discuss theoretically alternative channels through which such policies m...

Abstract This paper uses panel data on over 200 regions of Europe during the years 2010–2015 to study relationship between quality institutions and capacity local authorities stakeholders effectively protect support cultural heritage, using new designations in UNESCO World Heritage List as a proxy. Besides analyzing spatial distribution sites across European regions, we test whether location re...