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Bulut, Harun; Collins, Keith J.; Zacharias, Thomas P. - 2011

We theoretically examine a farmer’s coverage demand with area and individual insurance plans as either separate or integrated options. The individual and area losses are assumed to be imperfectly and positively correlated. With actuarially fair rates, the farmer will fully insure with the...

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Competitiveness and revealed comparative advantage in the SADC maize industry

Mutambatsere, Emelly - 2008

This paper evaluates the production and trade trends for maize and maize products in southern Africa, individual countries’ revealed comparative advantages in producing these products, and the expected implications of freer trade in this sector. The analysis employs mainly annual bilateral...

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Modelling Waikato Farm Nitrogen Discharges for Policy Analysis

Ramilan, Thiagarajah; Scrimgeour, Frank G. - 2005

This study describes the development of bio economic models examining the economic and water quality impact of various proposed policy options in the Upper Waikato catchment. In the first phase nitrogen emissions are determined for representative farming systems using the Overseer nutrient...

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The Impact of Trade Costs on Firm Entry, Exporting, and Survival in Korea

Kim, Sooil; Reimer, Jeffrey J.; Gopinath, Munisamy - 2009

This study uses a unique firm-level dataset to examine how falling trade costs from 1993-2001 affected entry, exit, productivity, and exporting in the Korean manufacturing sector. We verify many of the predictions of recent heterogeneous-firm models of international trade. For example, falling...

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Friend or Foe? The Kyoto Protocol and the NZ Greenhouse Industry

Barber, Andrew; Parminter, Irene - 2004

The greenhouse sector has reinvented itself as a technologically advanced and relatively environmentally friendly industry over the past 15 years. However it remains a high energy user. Two recent surveys have highlighted the potential impact on greenhouse grower costs of the proposed emissions...

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Understanding Spatial Welfare Impacts of a Grain Ethanol Plant

Van Wart, Justin; Perrin, Richard K. - 2009

A changing world of increasing complexity, fluctuating prices, high energy costs and limited data necessitate creative blending of economic theory and available empirical statistics to understand the welfare impacts in a specific market. In this paper, a programming approach is used in tandem...

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Production Contracts and Farm Business Growth and Survival

Key, Nigel D. - 2010

In recent decades there has been a substantial increase in the scale of production and the use of production contracts in the hog sector. This paper explores empirically whether these two phenomena are related by examining whether the use of production contracts has allowed finish hog operations...

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Risk Analysis in Selected European and International Food Chains

Ameseder, Christoph; Haas, Rainer; Fritz, Melanie; … - 2009

The purpose of this study is to assess and evaluate the most important risks in selected Europeanand international food chains from the perspective of the buying company. The primary objectiveis to identify the “non-acceptable” risks in terms of damage potential and likelihood of...

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How Effective is the Invisible Hand? Agricultural and Food Markets in Central and Eastern Europe

Hockmann, Heinrich; Brosig, Stephan; Popp, Jozsef; … - 2005

-, marketing- or transfer-costs, or –since these costs are usually difficult to quantify – to observe price differentialsover time … farmgate/consumer price spread: The processing and marketing margins increasedfor wheat and beef while they declined for grapes … producers and processors of berry fruits to reduce marketing andprocurement risk, respectively. This can be achieved by …

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PREMIUMHANDELSMARKEN IM LEBENSMITTELEINZELHANDEL - EINE IMAGEANALYSE AM BEISPIEL VON REWE FEINE WELT

Frank, Kerstin; Obermowe, Tim; Spiller, Achim - 2011

Aktuellen Beobachtungen im deutschen Lebensmitteleinzelhandel (LEH) zufolge treten die Handelsunternehmen mit der Einführung von Premiumhandelsmarken bzw. Genusshandels-marken (als sehr jungen Premiumhandelsmarkentyp) in direkte Konkurrenz zu entsprechen-den Herstellermarken und stellen Themen...

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