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INTEGRATING AND ASSESSING EXISTING AGRIBUSINESS COURSEWORK INTO A NEW UNDERGRADUATE INTERNATIONAL AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT CONCENTRATION

MacDougall, Neal A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2001

The purpose of this paper is to use Cal Poly's example of the design and assessment of a new agribusiness concentration as a means to develop a process by which subsequent change can be managed within the context of coordinating change with the ongoing curriculum and employment needs of a...

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Consumers Valuations and Choice Processes of Food Safety Enhancement Attributes: An International Study of Beef Consumers

Tonsor, Glynn T.; Schroeder, Ted C.; Pennings, Joost M.E.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007

Food safety concerns have had dramatic impacts on food and livestock markets in recent years. Here we examine consumer preferences for various beef food safety assurances. In particular, we evaluate the extent to which such preferences are heterogeneous within and across country-of-residence...

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Investment Reluctance: Irreversibility or Imperfect Capital Markets? Evidence from German Farm Panel Data

Huettel, Silke; Musshoff, Oliver; Odening, Martin - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007

Investment behavior at the firm level is characterized by lumpy adjustments and frequent periods of inactivity. Low investment rates are particularly puzzling in transition economies where an urgent need of modernization exists. The literature offers two explanations for. Firstly,...

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A spatial model of household fuelwood extraction in northern Uganda

Miteva, Daniela A.; Kramer, Randall; Brown, Zachary; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

Previous studies have suggested that market failures are household-specific and not commodity-specific (de Janvry et al, 1991); transaction costs determine whether a household is a buyer, seller or self-sufficient for a given good and how much it is going to produce (Key et al, 2000). Focusing...

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Coase Revisited: Economic Efficiency under Externalities, Transaction Costs and Non-Convexity

Chavas, Jean-Paul - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

This paper presents a general equilibrium analysis of economic efficiency under externalities, transaction costs and non-convexity. It applies to market exchange as well as contractual arrangements. We show that the Coase theorem continues to hold under general conditions: the efficient...

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Receiving incorrect information is costly: Diffusion and accuracy of market information among farmers in northern Ghana

Zanello, Giacomo; Shankar, Bhavani; Srinivasan, Chittur S. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

The recent adoption of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs, namely mobile phones and radios) in rural areas of Sub- Saharan Africa has brought new evidence that an updated and reliable flow of information can have direct benefits for farmers' welfare. However, if correct market...

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Accounting for Transaction Costs in Point/Nonpoint Water Quality Trading Programs in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Ribaudo, Marc; McCann, Laura M.J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

Transaction costs are commonly identified as a major reason why so few point/nonpoint trades have occurred in water quality trading programs. We examine the transaction costs to buyers and sellers in Pennsylvania's trading program, and compare them to baseline costs.

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TRANSACTION COSTS, ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES

Herath, Deepananda P.B.; Weersink, Alfons - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 1999

This study has attempted to distinguish the alternative forms of transaction costs referred to the environmental policy literature and to bring these transaction costs into a unified theory. The optimal choice of economic instrument between Pigouvian taxes and tradable permits is shown to depend...

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Compliance with International Food Safety Standards in Kenya's Green Bean Industry: A Paired Case Study of Small and Large Family Farms

Okello, Julius Juma; Swinton, Scott M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

This study uses two farm case studies to explore how Kenyan green bean farmers are meeting European food safety standards. For green bean farmers, the standards increase the fixed costs and the transactions costs of producing beans; the standards also alter how bean quality is assessed. Both the...

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Organic certification systems and international trading of agricultural products in gravity models

Cantore, Nicola; Canavari, Maurizio; Pignatti, Erika - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008

Recent literature about gravity models points out the importance of institutional frictions in the international market … transaction costs in trading relationships by stimulating international market. In a previous work we hypothesized that the … about the identification of relevant variables for international business arise from an econometric analysis. …

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