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Evaluating Marketing Channel Options for Small-Scale Fruit and Vegetable Producers
LeRoux, Matthew N.; Schmit, Todd M.; Roth, Monika; … - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2009
An investigation of the relative costs and benefits of marketing channels used by typical smallscale diversified … the performance of wholesale and direct marketing channels, including how the factors of risk, owner and paid labor, price … marketing channels is needed to maximize overall firm performance. Accordingly, a ranking system is developed to summarize the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991652
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Conceptualizing Informality: Regulation and Enforcement
Kanbur, Ravi - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2009
The informality discourse is large, vibrant and expanding fast. But there is a certain conceptual incoherence to the literature. New definitions of informality compete with old definitions leading to a plethora of alternative conceptualisations. While some individual studies may apply a tight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000475
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The Impact of Ethanol Plants on Cropland Values in the Great Plains
Henderson, Jason R.; Gloy, Brent A. - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2008
Corn ethanol plants consume large amounts of corn and their location has the potential to alter local crop prices and surrounding agricultural land values. The relationship between ethanol plant location and agricultural land prices is examined using data obtained from the Agricultural Credit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979520
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Dairy Farm Management Adjustments to Biofuels-Induced Changes in Agricultural Markets
Schmit, Todd M.; Boisvert, Richard N.; Enahoro, Dolapo K.; … - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2008
A mathematical programming model of a representative New York dairy farm is developed to identify optimal management adjustments to increased availability of corn distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS). While at current prices DDGS feeding is limited to dry cows and young stock, as prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068351
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A Typical Scene: Five Exposures to Poverty
Kanbur, Ravi - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2009
Over the past decade, I have been involved with an “Exposure and Dialogue Program” (EDP), which literally exposes analysts and policy makers to the lived reality of poor women’s lives by getting them to spend a few days experiencing that life. After each EDP, participants are encouraged to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038618
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Intergenerationalities: Some Educational Questions on Quality, Quantity and Opportunity
Kanbur, Ravi - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2009
This paper raises a number of issues in thinking about and addressing the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. Starting with choice subject to constraints by parents as determining outcomes for children, the paper identifies sequences of interventions to relieve “binding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991654
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Poverty Dynamics: Measurement and Understanding from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Addison, Tony; Hulme, David; Kanbur, Ravi - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2008
This paper introduces a significant new multi-disciplinary collection of studies of poverty dynamics, presenting the reader with the latest thinking by a group of researchers who are leaders in their respective disciplines. It argues that there are three main fronts on which progress must be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979506
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Ethanol Plant Investment using Net Present Value and Real Options Analyses
Schmit, Todd M.; Luo, Jianchuan; Tauer, Loren W. - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2008
A real option analysis of dry-grind corn ethanol plants compared to a standard net present value analysis (NPV) shows that the option values increase entry prices and lower exit prices of investment and disinvestment considerably. For a large plant, the gross margin of ethanol price over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979510
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Monetary Policy Challenges for Emerging Market Economies
Hammond, Gill; Kanbur, Ravi; Prasad, Eswar - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2009
This paper introduces a significant new collection of papers on monetary policy in emerging market economies, written by leading analysts and policy makers. Does existing economic theory provide lessons that are pertinent for designing effective monetary policy frameworks in emerging markets?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038613
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Carbon Dioxide Offsets from Anaerobic Digestion of Dairy Waste
Gloy, Brent A. - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2010
Anaerobic digestion allows farmers to create renewable energy and significantly reduce manure methane emissions. Methane emission reductions have the potential to be an important source of carbon dioxide offsets under cap and trade climate legislation. Estimates of the aggregate supply curve for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010921327