Regional Differences in Transformation of Czech Agriculture after 1989

The New Subversives - Czech Environmentalists after 1989

Between the 1980s and late 1990s the Czech environmental movement has developed from two official national conservationist groups, which were recognized by the communist regime and which in their activities overlapped with more independent initiatives, into a complex network of diverse groups. Early in this past decade the standing of the environmental movement shifted from champions of democra...

Institutions , Networking and Local Culture : Local Community Transformation after 1989 on the Example of Olomouc , Czech Republic

Monetary Transmission in the Czech Republic after the Transformation

This paper analyzes the transmission mechanisms of a contractionary monetary policy shock on the real economy. The sufficiently long regime uniform time period since the political transformation in the Czech Republic provides evidence for effective inflation targeting by the Czech National Bank. I apply a recursive vector autoregression (VAR), a structural VAR, and structural vector error corre...

The development of food consumption in the Czech Republic after 1989.

OBJECTIVE To define the average food consumption per capita in the Czech population and to investigate food consumption development during the years of economic transition. DESIGN Three studies based on the household budget survey (HBS) were conducted in the 1990s. The primary data originated from so-called diaries of reporting households loaned out from the Czech Statistical Office (CSO). Th...

Decadal reduction of Chinese agriculture after a regional nuclear war

A regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan could decrease global surface temperature by 1∘C–2∘C for 5–10 years and have major impacts on precipitation and solar radiation reaching Earth’s surface. Using a crop simulation model forced by three global climate model simulations, we investigate the impacts on agricultural production in China, the largest grain producer in the world. In the f...