On July 17 2014 in Karlsruhe Germany, Joris IJsselmuiden successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Interaction analysis in smart work environments through fuzzy temporal logic” [1]. The examination committee consisted of Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jürgen Beyerer, Michael Beigl, Dorothea Wagner, Oliver Hummel, and Peter H. Schmitt (Fig. 1). The main publications associated with this PhD thesis ar...

Explaining Agricultural What explains differences in agricultural and agrarian and Agrarian Policies policies across couJntries and in Developing Countries over time? Why do countries in Developing Countries dpalniM ozc adopt, and maintain, policy regimes that reduce efficiency Hans P. Binswanger and increase rural poverty? Klaus Deininger What are the conditions for countries to initiate equit...

It is a pleasure to comment on the paper by César Calderón and Klaus SchmidtHebbel. Typically, when economists ask the question ‘what drives inflation?’, explanations turn to monetary factors. The problem of inflation control is naturally encapsulated in the new Keynesian models such as that described in Woodford (2003) and Galí (2008). An important contribution of César and Klaus’s paper is th...