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Modeling Agricultural Innovation in a Rapidly Developing Country: The Case of Chinese Pesticide Industry
Shi, Guanming; Pray, Carl E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
rapidly developing country, China. We find that the government encouraged local innovation by opening regions to more …Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and … innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual model and then empirically testing it using pesticide innovation data from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021219
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Information and Firms’ Search Behavior
Aker, Jenny; Tack, Jesse B. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
Information and communications technologies (ICTs) have spread rapidly over the past decade. There has been considerable interest in the effect of such technology on search costs, search behavior and welfare outcomes, particularly in developing countries. This paper investigates the impact of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021549
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ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON DAIRY FARMS IN THE NETHERLANDS AND ISRAEL
Asseldonk, Marcel A.P.M. Van; Huirne, Ruud B.M.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 1998
Effects of a number of information technology applications were quantified empirically which were implemented on Dutch and Israeli dairy farms. Data comprised annual farm performances from 1987 to 1996, and included both adopters and nonadopters as well as farm results before and after adoption....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005338758
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Impact of land readjustment project on farmland use and structural adjustment: The case of Niigata, Japan
Arimoto, Yutaka - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
, Japan. We use census data of rural communities for 1990 and 2000 to conduct pooled regression, first-difference, difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020777
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Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Impacts on Japan’s Import Demand for Cooked and Uncooked Poultry, Beef, Pork, and Other Meats
Taha, Fawzi A.; Hahn, William F. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
First developed meat import demand system, disaggegating poultry meat into two products, cooked poultry (safe)and uncooked poultry meat (less safe). The model includes, beef, pork, and other meats as well.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021559
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Ambiguity Aversion and Preferences for Food Origin Post Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Peterson, Hikaru; Yamaura, Koichi - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068957
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The Signalling Channel of Central Bank Interventions: Modelling the Yen/US Dollar Exchange Rate
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael; Glanemann, Nicole - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
This paper presents a theoretical framework analysing the signalling channel of exchange rate interventions as an informational trigger. We develop an implicit target zone framework with learning in order to model the signalling channel. The theoretical premise of the model is that interventions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878989
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INCOME ELASTICITY OF RICE DEMAND IN JAPAN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS: CROSS-SECTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS
Taniguchi, Kiyoshi; Chern, Wen S. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2000
Researchers believe that rice in developed countries such as Japan became an inferior good a few decades ago. This … study employs the flexible complete demand system for the recent cross-sectional data in Japan. Our results clearly show … that rice in Japan is a normal good contrary to the preceding studies. The objective of this research is to analyze the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005513578
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Does Agricultural Trade Liberalization under FTA Reduce Pollution from Agriculture? : The Case of the Japan-Korea FTA
Yamamoto, Yasutaka; Sawauchi, Daisuke; Masuda, Kiyotaka - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007
agricultural trade liberalization under the Japan-Korea FTA (JKFTA), using the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model and the … OECD Nitrogen Balance Database. The scenario we model assumes the complete removal of all import tariffs between Japan and … lead to an overall increase in the total nitrogen surplus for Japan and Korea. Therefore, our results suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005327195
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Fishery Co-Management in Japanese Coastal Fisheries
Uchida, Hirotsugu - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the Japanese coastal fishery co-management system. In particular, the paper focuses on the effectiveness of Fishery Management Organizations (FMOs), which are established by groups of fishermen and set rules and regulations that they self-enforce. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005220493