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Land Market Integration, Structural Change, and Smallholder Farming in Zambia

Larson, Andrew M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

The bifurcation of Zambia's agricultural land markets prevents smallholder farmers from participating in modern food marketing channels. High transaction costs in terms of time and financial resources make conversion of customary land into commercial land title prohibitively expensive for...

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A Decade of Natural Gas Development: The Makings of a Resource Curse?

Weber, Jeremy G. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

Many studies find that areas more dependent on natural resources grow more slowly – a relationship known as the resource curse. For counties in the south-central U.S., I find little evidence of an emerging curse from greater natural gas production during the 2000s. Increases in population...

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Firm Birth and Death in U.S. Manufacturing: A Regional Adjustment Model

Brown, Jason P.; Lambert, Dayton M.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009

Attracting manufacturing investment is a frequently used rural development policy. Previous research in the location ….S. manufacturing sector is developed from location theory and subsequent literature. Specifically, we test the relative importance of …

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Manufacturing Transition in Local Economies: A Regional Adjustment Model

Brown, Jason P.; Lambert, Dayton M.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

rate of establishment births and deaths in U.S. manufacturing, 2000–2004. A theoretical concept called “localized creative … destruction” is tested as a mechanism to explain the dynamics impacting the spatial distribution of manufacturing establishment … concerned with business retention and the impact of new manufacturing establishments on their existing base. …

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Fertilizer Subsidies and Voting Patterns: Political Economy Dimensions of Input Subsidy Programs

Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, T.S.; Walle, Nicolas van de - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

Agricultural input subsidies often have implicit or explicit political economy objectives. Using panel data from Zambia, this article empirically tests whether election outcomes affect targeting of subsidized fertilizer and whether fertilizer subsidies win votes. Results suggest that the Zambian...

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Policy Responses to 2008 High Food Prices: Domestic Incentives and Global Implications

Woolverton, Andrea E.; Kiawu, James - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009

Global food commodity price inflation beginning in 2006 and continuing through mid-2008 became a priority concern for global consumers, producers and policy-makers alike. In response, many governments across the world implemented policies targeting high food commodity prices in their domestic...

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Sensitive Product Treatment in Agricultural Trade Negotiations

Durand-Morat, Alvaro; Wailes, Eric J.; Sharp, Misti - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

The fact that trade, and especially agricultural trade, remains far from free is puzzling, since the superiority of free trade receives overwhelming support among economists (Gawande and Krishna, 2003; Rodrik, 1994). International trade scholars have devoted significant resources to forecasting the...

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THE DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT OF CORRUPTION ON MICROENTERPRISES IN RUSSIA

Safavian, Mehnaz S.; Sheldon, Ian M.; Graham, Douglas H.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2001

Over the past decade, the repressive legal and regulatory environment in transition economies has received considerable attention in the literature. In Russia, this framework has resulted in an environment in which rules and regulations govern almost all aspects of economic activity. The...

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HOW TO CONSIDER GOVERNANCE IN ECONOMIC POLICY MODELING?

Gaitan, Beatriz; Pavel, Ferdinand - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2001

We develop a framework where economic agents choose between becoming productive entrepreneurs or re-distributive rent seekers. Rent seekers use economic resources to extract rents and thus their existence generates an inefficient economic outcome. We study the welfare impact of rent seeking...

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THE WELFARE IMPACT OF SELF-REGULATION

Zago, Angelo M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2002

This paper is concerned with welfare effects of self-regulation. It considers one group of heterogeneous producers modelling incentives they face when collectively deciding about production and trade of a commodity and employing a technology that take into account the trade-off between quality...

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