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This paper introduces technology choice and credit access constraints in Melitz (2003) model under a dynamic setting to … are specifically relevant in a developing country context are firm's access to credit and frontier level technology. The … findings indicate that firms are constrained both in technology adoption and the extensive margin of trade The study is …
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Consumers are often uncertain about product quality and have to rely on different information, either given or pursued, to assess quality. Developing countries may lack institutional and technical resources to rigorously monitor and enforce product quality standards and/or to implement...
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We develop a model of the impact of food quality management systems (QMS) on competitiveness and markets. QMS seek to control the quality of a product as determined by the array of individual attributes it possesses. To date only a few studies have attempted to better understand the effect of...
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A repeated-purchases model is developed to explore the fundamental economic factors that lie behind the choice of different quality assurance systems and their associated degrees of stringency by firms. Differences in the quality discoverability of a sought-after attribute, market structure,...
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This paper examines the extensive and intensive margin changes in land use in the U.S. likely to be induced by biofuel policies and the implications of these policies for GHG emissions over the 2007-2022 period. The policies considered here include the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) by itself as...
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associated with increasing export-competitiveness, while among foreign invested enterprises, it has been oriented more toward …
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We use basic probability theory and simple replicable electronic search experiments to evaluate some reported “myths” surrounding the origins and evolution of the QWERTY standard. The resulting evidence is strongly supportive of arguments put forward by Paul A. David (1985) and W. Brian...
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Farmer’s post adoption responses about technology are important in continuation and diffusion of a technology in …
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This paper investigates the nonparametric analysis of technology under non-convexity. The analysis extends two … non-convexity is too extreme. We propose a new nonparametric model that relies on a neighborhood-based technology …
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factors associated with energy consumption as related to crop production management decisions and technology use may provide … could reduce nitrogen runoff. Energy costs may be reduced with adoption of reduced tillage technology, improved drying and …
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