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THE MARKET RISK PERCEPTIONS AND MANAGEMENT OF IRISH DAIRY FARMERS

Loughrey, J.; Thorne, F.; Kinsella, A.; Hennessy, T.; … - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014

The abolition of the milk quota regime in April 2015 will provide the opportunity for many profitable Irish dairy farms to increase their production levels. Market risk will influence the decision-making process at the farm level. Dairy farmers have acquired more recent experience of market risk...

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Supermarket Promotions and Food Prices

Lan, H.; Lloyd, T. A.; Morgan, C. W. - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014

Using a sample comprising nearly a quarter of a million weekly prices from the largest seven supermarket chains in the UK, we present statistical evidence on two pricing practices that have attracted public interest. Analysing price dynamics before and after periods of promotional discounting...

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A comparison of innovation in the Scottish livestock sector: the case of genetic selection techniques

Borthwick, F A; Barnes, A P; Lamprinopoulou-Kranis, C - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014

This paper compares innovation systems in three main Scottish livestock sectors: dairy, beef, and sheep, using the uptake of Estimated Breed Values (EBVs) across these three sectors. We apply an innovation systems approach to identify systemic challenges within these sectors. Barriers to the...

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COST PASS-THROUGH IN DIFFERENTIATED PRODUCT MARKETS: A DISAGGREGATED STUDY FOR MILK AND BUTTER

Loy, Jens-Peter; Holm, Thore; Steinhagen, Carsten; … - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014

In food retailing a high degree of static price dispersion between and within stores and between brands has been documented, but at the brand and/or retail outlet level the dynamic behaviour of prices, as well as its causes, have not been analysed in the European food market context. In this...

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Capital structure and financing decisions of agricultural cooperatives: Spanish evidence

Mateos-Ronco, Alicia; Lajara-Camilleri, Natalia - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014

The study of the financial structure is a complex and recurrent line of research in the field of corporate finance. Increasing the understanding of the financial structure and its implications on corporate governance is the starting point for improving the access to external financing and reduce...

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One Man’s Meat…. 2050? Ruminations on future meat demand in the context of global warming.

Revell, Brian J. - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2015

This paper considers a range of issues relating to the contribution of meat consumption and livestock production to global warming given the need highlighted by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) to reduce global GHG emissions by over 50% by 2050. The IPCC Climate Change 2014 report...

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Are commodity futures markets short-term efficient? An empirical investigation

Mazouz, Khelifa; Wang, Jian - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014

This study examines individual commodity futures price reaction to large one day price changes, or "shocks". The mean-adjusted abnormal return model suggests that investors in 6 of the 18 commodity futures, examined in this study, either underreact or overreact to positive surprises. It also...

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The Effects of the Costs of Trade Transaction and Free Trade in the International Soy Market

Caetani, Maria Inês; Alvim, Augusto Mussi; Hubbard, Carmem - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2015

This study analyzes and discusses the impacts of the costs of trade transaction and tariff barriers and subsidies in the international soy trade. To achieve such a purpose, a partial equilibrium model is used, formulated as a Mixed Complementarity Problem - MCP - which allows including of the...

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Do experimental protocols in Conjoint Analysis matter in non Hypothetical settings?

Yangui, A.; Akaichi, F.; Costa-Font, M.; Gil, J. M. - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014

This paper aims at comparing the performance of three conjoint analyses (CA) in terms of estimated partworths, predictive power and estimated WTP: choice experiment (CE); ranking conjoint analysis (RCA) and best-worst scaling (BWS). Comparisons are made in a non-hypothetical setting. For...

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Study of Rice Marketing System in Iran

Feizabadi, Yaser - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2011

Iran one of the greatest rice importer countries all over the world. That is why rice marketing has always been a … controversial issue in Iran`s agricultural economics. To study rice marketing system in Iran, this paper aims to calculate rice … marketing margin, market efficiency and marketing cost coefficient in seaside Mazandaran province( where 70 percent of domestic …

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