Ethological farm programs as they exist in Switzerland are compared with environmental
farm programs in respect of demand and supply. Because animal welfare is not a public …

Merit goods are defined here as goods for which government interference with the
aggregated willingness to pay increases utility. The paper argues that three cases exist …

This book builds on the research on fair trade coffee that I did in the Economics Department
of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva in 2005-2006 …

In this paper, I investigate the effects of social dumping in a North-South trade model when
firms strategically interact in the output market. The South firm practices social dumping due …

✓ TBT, SPS, and Labelling✓ Trade and Development✓ Trade, Environment and Human
Rights✓ Trade in Commodities✓ Implementation Procedures✓ Trade in Services✓ …

Although, in the nineteenth century, Böhm-Bawerk remarked that relations as a category are
distinct from goods, economists today increasingly subsume relations as a particular …

Leaving animal welfare to the market through labeling programs, subsidies for ethological
farm programs and protective laws are three distinct ways to provide animal welfare. For …

This paper considers the system of fair trade coffee. It first gives a short description of the
coffee market and some of its major trends. The origin of the fair trade movement is then …