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The idea that individuals adapt their behaviors in response to changes in incentive systems is fundamental to most economic analysis. This paper incorporates the concept of price discovery costs into the incentive theory to offer a theoretical model and empirical evidence on the differential...
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Despite the dramatic change in the organization of the US hog industry over the past two decades, the existing literature offers little insight into the decision by pork packers to use long-term marketing contracts, which represent the dominant form of hog procurement transactions. Existing...
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Aspekte. Durch die zahlreichen Skandale und Krisen gerät insbesondere die Fleischwirtschaft ins öffentliche Wahrnehmungsfeld … Unternehmens, aber auch insgesamt für die Fleischwirtschaft geworden. In dem gesellschaftlichen Diskurs hat es die Fleischbranche …-Agrarsektoren hat die Fleischwirtschaft den schlechtesten Ruf. Innerhalb der Branche treten starke Unterschiede zwischen den …
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The paper meets the pork producers, in terms of identifying the cost elements for biological material introduced at fattening, which is one of the most important categories of variable expenditures. In the specialized swine breeding systems (breeding farms), the first product value quantifiable...
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This report describes the preparation of the pork meat matrix reference material ERM-BB124 and the certification of the content (mass fraction) of six nitroimidazole parent drugs and hydroxy metabolites.
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Externalities from the production and consumption of meat could be addressed by a meat tax. In a referendum choice experiment with 3,169 participants, we elicited support for a meat tax varying the following characteristics: tax level, justification of the tax, degree of differentiation and...
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Industry stakeholder requests for improved animal welfare practices in German meat production have steadily increased in recent years. A transformation of German animal husbandry systems would almost certainly result in higher production costs. Against this background, producers and the meat...
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