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A combination of higher oil production as well as higher oil prices is creating oil revenue windfalls for some Sub Saharan African countries. If well managed, these revenues have the potential to reduce poverty and bridge the development gap; if not they could lead to Dutch disease and an...
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Economic theory gives no clear indication of the minimum number of producers necessary for a market to define competitive price-quantity equilibria which approximate price equal to marginal cost. Previous work and FERC Guidelines generally suggest that 6 to 10 generators may be workably...
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competitiveness in India. This is done by estimating the nominal (NPC), effective (EPC) and effective subsidy (ESC) protection … indicates a general policy bias against chickpea producers in the northern wheat growing belt of India. The Net Economic Benefit … efficient crop to produce. From a standpoint of economic efficiency, this result implies that India is better off allowing …
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introduction of several patented or socalled managed apple varieties. We develop an experiment to examine consumer response to a … included in the experiment. Results suggest that the name does influence consumer valuation of the new variety and existing …
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Escalating media advertising costs have prompted shifts away from advertising to non-advertising promotion activities in the dairy industry’s generic commodity promotion program. As advertising budgets become tighter, determining the optimal allocation of these funds becomes particularly...
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the other options producers and processors have for marketing their product (e.g., non-advertising promotion, research …
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understanding of the role that their promotion programs play in changing consumer beliefs and attitudes, and subsequently …
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Economists have long considered issues of spatial economic activity, trade, and location values. Among all the various theories presented over the past century, it is safe to say that not one predicts that goods, services, or factors of production must attain the same value at different...
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