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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 study takes the standard acreage response model that stems from an expected utility framework, accounting for both price and yield variability, and nests it within a flexible semi-nonparametric (SNP) model consistent with farm-level decision models for computationally tractable results. We...
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by meeting specific market demands while assessing the reasonable risk associated with bio-energy production for an area …, reducing the production risk and enhancing the competitiveness of bio-energy products. Gasifying biomass is a feasible way to … key components for dealing the risk and commercializing bio-energy products in long term. …
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-food risks. The means by which this is done is novel and differs from past risk perception analyses in that it asks people … the risk perceptions has 4 main foci concerning the relative assessment of (i) novel as opposed to more familiar risks (e … versus how worrying the risks are considered to be, (iv) differences in the risk perceptions across social groups, in this …
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Herein we model the widespread dispersal and management of an invasive species as a weak-link public good. The risk of … introduction is driven in part by economic activity, is influenced by policies directed at the risk, and economic activity responds …/adapts to the risk. Framed around recent introductions and rapid spread of dreissenid mussels in the Western United States, we …
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feedstocks are also estimated and show that the 20MGYplant can tolerate greater ethanol and feedstock price risk than the 10MGY …
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