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A tribute to Giovanni Anania: Scholar, Mentor, Friend
No full textThis section collects several contributions intended to offer a tribute to Giovanni Anania. Giovanni suddenly and unexpectedly passed away on 15 July 2015.This section is based on the contributions to the special session chaired by Jo Swinnen - held at the 29th International Conference of Agricultural Economics, Milan, 9-14 August 2015 - to honor the memory and contribution of Giovanni Anania
A tribute to Giovanni Anania: Scholar, Mentor, Friend
No full textThis section collects several contributions intended to offer a tribute to Giovanni Anania. Giovanni suddenly and unexpectedly passed away on 15 July 2015.
This section is based on the contributions to the special session chaired by Jo Swinnen - held at the 29th International Conference of Agricultural Economics, Milan, 9-14 August 2015 - to honor the memory and contribution of Giovanni Anania
Giovanni Anania : construire l'avenir de politique agricole européenne
No full textInternational audiencePrésentation et analyse des travaux de Giovanni Anania sur la politique agricole commune
Gains from trade liberalization with imperfectly competitive world markets. A note.
No full textThe paper shows how analyses assuming perfect competition can yield a distorted estimation of the expected effects of a trade liberalization when market imperfections exist. The analytical framework adopted is very simple and three extreme imperfect market structures are considered. In the first case, the exporting country maximizes its producer and consumer surplus by intervening in the world market. The second market imperfection considered is the existence of a private firm playing the role of "pure middleman" in the world market. Then the case of a producer-owned marketing board which is granted exclusive export authority is addressed. It is shown that estimates of the impact of a tariff reduction in terms of prices and volume traded obtained assuming perfect competition when this postulate does not hold, are distorted. When domestic demand and supply functions are assumed to be linear, the impact is overestimated; a ranking of the size of such distortions in the three cases analyzed is provided. When no restriction is imposed on the demand and supply functions, the error in the estimated impact of a tariff reduction involves the magnitude as well as the sign of the expected changes in prices and volume traded. Finally, it is proved that when a private firm exerts monopoly and monopsony power in the world market, both the importing and the exporting countries may well be better off if, rather than making a move towards trade liberalization, the importing country "compensates" the exporting country by means of a direct transfer. El artÃculo muestra cómo los análisis que incorporan el supuesto de competencia perfecta pueden proporcionar una estimación distorsionada de los efectos esperados de una liberación del comercio en presencia de imperfecciones de mercado . Adoptando un marco analÃtico muy sencillo, se consideran tres casos extremos de imperfecciones de mercado. En el primero, el paÃs exportador maximiza los excedentes del productor y consumidor interviniendo en el mercado mundial. El segundo es el caso de una empresa privada que desempeña en el mercado mundial un papel de "intermediario puro". El último trata de una junta de comercialización, propiedad de productores que han conseguido derechos exclusivos de exportación. En este trabajo se demuestra la existencia de una desviación de las estimaciones del impacto de una reducción de aranceles sobre los precios y el volumen comercializado cuando en el análisis se supone competencia perfecta y dicho supuesto no se cumple. Además si las funciones de demanda y oferta domésticas son lineales, el impacto precedente queda sobreestimado. Asimismo, en el trabajo se presenta una ordenación de la magnitud de dichas desviaciones para cada uno de los tres casos analizados. Cuando no se impone ninguna restricción sobre las funciones de demanda y oferta, el error de estimación afecta tanto a la magnitud como al signo de los cambios esperados en precios y volumen comercializado, como consecuencia de una reducción de aranceles. Finalmente, se demuestra que, cuando una empresa privada ejerce un poder de monopolio y de monopsonio en el mercado mundial, tanto los paÃses importadores como los exportadores pueden beneficiarse si, en lugar de inclinarse hacia la liberalización del comercio, el paÃs importador "compensa" al paÃs exportador mediante una transferencia directa. Palabras clave: liberalización del comercio; mercados imperfectos; monopolio; monopsonio; junta de comercialización.trade liberalization, imperfect markets, monopoly, monopsony, marketing board, International Relations/Trade, F12, F13, Q17, Q18,
Giovanni Anania, Mary E. Bohman, Colin A. Carter, Alex F. McCalla (editors), Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO : Where Are We Heading ? , Cheltenham and Northampton, Edward Elgar, 2004
No full textBrink Lars. Giovanni Anania, Mary E. Bohman, Colin A. Carter, Alex F. McCalla (editors), Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO : Where Are We Heading ? , Cheltenham and Northampton, Edward Elgar, 2004. In: Cahiers d'Economie et sociologie rurales, N°80, 3e trimestre 2006. pp. 97-98
Le «buone letture». 2. Giovanni Casati
No full textIl saggio è costituito da due parti, la prima delle quali, dedicata alla fondazione della Federazione italiana delle biblioteche circolanti cattoliche, è stata pubblicata nel precedente numero dei «Nuovi Annali», XXVII (2013), pp. 137-163. In questa seconda parte viene delineata la figura intellettuale di Giovanni Casati, che diresse la «Rivista di letture» dal 1912 al 1944, trasformando il periodico della Federazione in una rivista impegnata nella divulgazione della cultura cattolica. A questo impegno militante Casati fece corrispondere un intenso programma editoriale, che trovò espressione nella pubblicazione di saggi letterari, di manuali e opere repertoriali.The study consists of two parts; the first is dedicated to the history of the Federazione italiana delle biblioteche circolanti cattoliche since its foundation (1904) up to 1912 and was published in the previous volume of the «Nuovi Annali », XXVII (2013), pp. 137-163. In this second part, the author outlines the intellectual figure of Giovanni Casati, who directed the «Rivista di letture» from 1912 to 1944, transforming the magazine of the Federation in a journal engaged in the spreading of Catholic culture. To this militant engagement Casati matched an intense publishing program, which found its expression in the publication of literary essays, manuals and reference works
CALCOLOSI COLECISTO-COLEDOCICA E CHIRURGIA LAPAROSCOPICA
No full textLa VideoLaparoScapia è diventata in amni esperte l'intervento di prima scelta per il trattamento della calcolosi sintomatica della colecisti. Rimane dibattuto il trattamento della calcolosi del coledoco. Molteplici sono i protocolli diagnostico-terapeutici proposti per la litiasi colecisto-coledocica.... Gli AA dopo un analisi della bibliografia e della propria esperienza concludono che la coledocolitiasi non rappresenta più un limite alla chirurgia laparoscopica
Comico e tragico del diritto nella novellistica italiana: il novelliere di Giovanni Sercambi
No full textNelle novelle di età tardomedievale ed umanistica, a causa del loro carattere fortemente realistico, il diritto ha un posto importante, poiché rappresenta un elemento centrale e ineliminabile della vita della comunità. Il novelliere di Giovanni Sercambi da Lucca non fa eccezione, anche se l’autore non ha una cultura giuridica né s’interessa in modo specifico al diritto. Il presente saggio vuole analizzare sotto tale profilo queste novelle per verificare quale concezione del diritto emerge da esse e come la narrazione ne risulti arricchita.In the late medieval and humanistic novellas, owing to their very realistic character, the right is an important central and inevitable element in community life. Giovanni Sercambi’s novelliere is no exception even if the author lacks a legal culture, nor is specifically interested in right. This essay intends to analyze these novellas under this profile to verify what kind of right they consider and how the stories are enriched
The 2006 Reform of the EU Domestic Policy Regime for Bananas. An Assessment of its Impact on Trade.
No full textThe paper provides a quantitative assessment of the possible market implications of the December 2006 reform of the EU domestic policy regime for bananas. It is shown that, depending on implementation choices to be made at the member country level, the impact of the domestic policy reform on trade can be of a larger order of magnitude than that of the controversial tariff-only regime the EU introduced earlier in the same year. The simulations presented in this paper show that, ceteris paribus, if France, Portugal and Spain decide to decouple payments to their banana producers EU imports will increase by 13% and MFN exports to the EU by 16%; if they decide for a 2005 Memorandum-like option, EU imports still increase by 9% and MFN exports to the EU by 11%.International Relations/Trade,
MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS, REGIONAL INTEGRATION PROCESSES AND THE CAP. WHAT'S AHEAD?
No full textThe focus of the paper is on the developments so far and the future of the negotiations on agriculture in the WTO Doha Development Agenda round from the perspective of the European Union. The first part of the paper discusses what happened in the two parallel processes, the domestic agricultural policy reform in the EU and the WTO negotiations, identifying the linkages between CAP reform decisions and developments in the EU negotiation positions. The second part of the paper discusses further changes expected in the relatively near future in the CAP and in regional trade agreements involving the EU, and the perspectives of the WTO negotiations. The main point made is that the changes in domestic agricultural policy which have occurred in the EU (mostly motivated by domestic concerns), while they have not removed farm support nor made the CAP effective and efficient, have had a significant effect in terms of reducing its distortionary effects on markets, though more on the domestic than on the international ones. Unlike in the Uruguay round negotiations (when the MacSharry reform was decided close to the end of the round), the timing and extent of these reforms have made it possible for the EU to be a credible actor in the DDA round and put forward sensible negotiating proposals. The CAP is expected to go through further significant changes in the near future which, regardless of what happens in the WTO negotiations, will bring a further market reorientation of EU agriculture and a reduction in trade distortions. Successful developments in preferential trade agreements involving the EU for which negotiations are already well under way may contribute to a significant increase in the opening of EU agro-food markets.International Relations/Trade,
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