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Effects of Environmental Regulation on Economic Activity and Pollution in Commercial Agriculture
Sneeringer, Stacy E. - 2009
Research on environmental regulation’s effects on economic activity has largely focused on manufacturing, ignoring one …, regulation has become an important criterion in firm location. This article extends the literature on environmental regulation … creates an opportunity to study how environmental regulation affects the location of economic activity, the externality costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445811
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Optimal Regional Policies to Control Manure Nutrients to Surface and Ground Waters
Iho, Antti; Parker, Doug; Zilberman, David - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
, tightening upstream regulation with respect to loading of one nutrient only might increase the downstream loading of the other … importance. Our model contributes to literature by i) differentiating (the impacts of) manure regulation between the livestock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010915934
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Effects of Environmental Regulation on Economic Activity and Pollution in Commercial Agriculture
Sneeringer, Stacy E. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009
Research on environmental regulation’s effects on economic activity has largely focused on manufacturing, ignoring one …, regulation has become an important criterion in firm location. This article extends the literature on environmental regulation … creates an opportunity to study how environmental regulation affects the location of economic activity, the externality costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004989160
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Effects of Increased Environmental Regulation of Manure Management at Livestock Operations: A Differences-in-Differences Approach
Sneeringer, Stacy; Key, Nigel D. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068893
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An Economic Assessment of Policy Options To Reduce Agricultural Pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay
Ribaudo, Marc; Savage, Jeffrey; Aillery, Marcel P. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2014
In 2010, a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) was established for the Chesapeake Bay, defining the limits on emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment necessary to reverse declines in the Bay’s quality and associated biological resources. Agriculture is the largest single source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098008
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Effect of Plant Location Decisions on Raw Material Input Prices
Burton, Diana M.; Love, H. Alan - 2011
In processing industries, plant location decisions are costly and have consequences for firm profitability. When raw materials are heavy or perishable, transportation costs limit shipping distances and processors must compete locally for raw material inputs. To determine the likely profitability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442291
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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF THE U.S. HOG SLAUGHTER INDUSTRY
Bullock, J. Bruce - 2003
Conventional wisdom holds that a small and decreasing number of hog slaughter firms are using their "market power" to take advantage of U.S. hog producers. Existing studies have simply calculated industry concentration ratios and assumed/asserted that the performance of such a concentrated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442417
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CATTLE AS ASSETS: ASSESSMENT OF NON-MARKET BENEFITS FROM CATTLE IN SMALLHOLDER KENYAN CROP-LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS
Ouma, Emily Awuor; Obare, Gideon A.; Staal, Steven J. - 2003
This paper uses data from a survey of two hundred and fifty cattle households in three cattle keeping systems; intensive, semi-intensive and extensive systems to estimate the value of non-market, socio-economic benefits of cattle in Kenya. These benefits of cattle keeping are of special...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442431
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HOW BIG IS YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD? SPATIAL IMPLICATIONS OF MARKET PARTICIPATION BY SMALLHOLDER LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS
Lapar, Ma. Lucila A.; Holloway, Garth J.; Ehui, Simeon K. - 2003
Identifying ways to increase market participation by smallholder producers requires identifying variables that influence market access. This is usually achieved using probit estimation. An important phenomenon affecting entry decision-making is the entry decision of a 'similar' household, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442439
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Trader Behaviour and Performance in Live Animal Marketing in Rural Ethiopian Markets
Jabbar, Mohammad A.; Benin, Samuel; Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Z. - 2006
In this paper, performance of a sample of 131 livestock traders in 38 rural Ethiopian highland markets was analysed in terms of their costs and margins, how these were influenced by their assets and trading practices, and the implications of the findings for policy were outlined. The paper is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442465