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Testing Asymmetric Price Transmission in the Vertical Supply Chain in De-regulated Rice Markets in Bangladesh

Alam, Mohammad Jahangir; Begum, Ismat Ara; Buysse, Jeroen; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

Market liberalization at the domestic level and at the boarder level has been a dominant feature of market reforms in most developing countries including Bangladesh during the last two decades. A pre-requisite for producers and consumers to benefit from this new and changing market environment...

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Forget the Hoe: Managing Invasive Plant Species with Dynamic Programming"

Verdone, Michael; Frasier, W. Marshall - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

Abstract Bromus Tectorum is an invasive plant species known to reduce abundance of native perennial grasses, increase fire frequency and intensity, decrease animal performance, and alter microbial communities and ecosystem processes. Specifically, in the Intermountain West, Bromus has been...

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Higher Education and agricultural careers: the relative importance of and returns to an agricultural major

Artz, Georgeanne M.; Kimle, Kevin L.; Orazem, Peter F. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

Agribusiness firms are increasingly hiring non-agriculture college graduates. Unclear is whether the demand for non-agriculture … graduates is predicated on an undersupply of agriculture graduates or if non-agriculture graduates have skills that are not … being developed in traditional agriculture programs. This study uses a large random sample of graduates of a Midwestern Land …

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Determinants of Agricultural Investment: An Application to Rural China

Young, Ethan R.; Shi, Guanming - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

China, a country developing at unprecedented levels, has experienced drastic changes throughout its recent economic history. Of primary interest is the continuing development and improvement of the rural agricultural sector, with even the slightest changes in this sector having dramatic ripple...

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Integrating Efficiency Concepts in Technology Approximation: A Weighted DEA Approach

Minegishi, Kota - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

A method is developed to integrate the efficiency concepts of technical, allocative, and scale inefficiencies (TI, AI, SI) into the variable returns to scale (VRS) frontier approximation in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The proposed weighted DEA (WDEA) approach takes a weighted average of the...

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Impacts of Export Controls On Wheat Markets During the Food Crisis 2007/2008 in Russia and Ukraine

Goetz, Linde; Glauben, Thomas; Brummer, Bernhard - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

This paper investigates the impacts of export controls in Russia and Ukraine on wheat world market price transmission … during the 2007/2008 global food crisis. Russia and Ukraine aimed to reduce wheat exports induced by extraordinarily high … Ukraine. Although instability increased on the world markets itself, we have shown that the increase in the market instability …

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Black Sea Wheat Market Integration with the International Wheat Markets: Some Evidence from Co-integration Analysis

Goychuk, Kateryna; Meyers, William H. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/19/11.

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Marketing, cooperatives and price heterogeneity: evidence from the CIS dairy sector

Sauer, Johannes; Gorton, Matthew; White, John - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

countries (Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine). We apply a multi-level modeling approach, specifically a bootstrapped mixed … output: consolidation, competition for output and stable supply chain relationships. In Armenia and Ukraine selling through a …

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Security of Property Rights and Land Use Transition in Ukraine

Nizalov, Denys; Thornsbury, Suzanne; Loveridge, Scott; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

extension of moratorium on land sales in Ukraine leads to under-investments in Ukrainian agriculture in general and into more …, agriculture in transition economies is facing one more major factor of risk – changes in the institutional protection of property … rights. This paper illustrates how such institutional uncertainty affects the land use and crop mix patterns in Ukraine …

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Changes in Food, Alcohol and Cigarettes Consumption during Transition: Evidence from Russia

Herzfeld, Thomas; Huffman, Sonya Kostova; Oskam, Arie J.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009

This paper examines the changes in nutritional behavior of Russian adults over the ten-year transition period, between 1994 and 2004. We present evidence on the impact of individual as well as regional characteristics on changes in fat, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on...

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