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CREDIT-PRODUCT INTERLINKAGE, CAPTIVE MARKETS AND TRADE LIBERALIZATION IN AGRICULTURE: A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS IN AGRICULTURE: A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Banerjee, Asis Kumar - EconWPA - 2005
through trader-farmer interlinkage in the form of interlinked credit-product contracts (ICPCs). ICPC (or the formation of … captive farmer has to equal the income of a farmer in the contested market. In general, in our model strategic considerations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407548
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INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TWO INFORMAL SECTOR LENDERS AND INTEREST RATE DETERMINATION IN THE INFORMAL CREDIT MARKET: A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005
existing literature on interlinkage. A price subsidy policy reduces the extent of interlinkage chosen by the trader while a … highlighting the interactions between two informal sector lenders (a professional moneylender and a trader-interlocker) and … explains the prevalence of different interest rates in the rural credit market. The trader and the moneylender play a non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407518
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INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TWO INFORMAL SECTOR LENDERS AND INTEREST RATE DETERMINATION IN THE INFORMAL CREDIT MARKET: A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005
existing literature on interlinkage. A price subsidy policy reduces the extent of interlinkage chosen by the trader while a … highlighting the interactions between two informal sector lenders (a professional moneylender and a trader-interlocker) and … explains the prevalence of different interest rates in the rural credit market. The trader and the moneylender play a non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407569
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Non Cooperatives Stackelberg Networks
Larrosa, Juan M.C. - EconWPA - 2005
Noncooperative network-formation games in oligopolies analyze optimal connection structures that emerge when linking represent the appropriation of cost-reducing one-way externalities. These models reflect situations where one firm access to another firm’s (public or private) information and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134494
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Cournot Competition Yields Spatial Avoiding Competition in Groups
Yu, Chia-Ming; Lai, Fu-Chuan - EconWPA - 2003
This paper characterizes the properties of equilibrium location patterns in an Anderson-Neven-Pal model and uses these characteristics to comprehensively find the subgame perfect Nash equilibria, most of which are not yet found in the literature. Since the external competition effect may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134538
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Trade Liberalization in Agriculture in Developed Nations and Incidence of Child Labour in a Developing Economy
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Dwibedi, Jayanta Kumar - EconWPA - 2005
This paper is an attempt to analyze the consequence of trade liberalization in agriculture in the developed countries on the incidence of child labour in a developing economy in terms of a three- sector general equilibrium model with informal sectors. Adult labour and child labour are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124906
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Agricultural Applications of Value-at-Risk Analysis: A Perspective
Manfredo, Mark R.; Leuthold, Raymond M. - EconWPA - 1998
Value-at-Risk (VaR) determines the probability of a portfolio of assets losing a certain amount in a given time period due to adverse market conditions with a particular level of confidence. Value-at-Risk has received considerable attention from financial economists and financial practitioners...
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The feasibility of an international tropical plywood futures contract
Rutten, Lamon - EconWPA - 2003
This paper explores the potential for futures contracts in tropical (hardwood) plywood, one of the few major internationally traded commodities for which there is no yet a futures market. Commodity characteristics and market structures and practices that have an impact on the feasibility of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126115
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Holiday Price Rigidity and Cost of Price Adjustment
Levy, Daniel; Muller, Georg; Dutta, Shantanu; Bergen, Mark - EconWPA - 2004
Using unique retail and wholesale price data for 4,532 products carried by a major Midwestern grocery retailer, we find evidence of significant retail price rigidity during the Thanksgiving through Christmas holiday period relative to the rest of the year. We suggest that this pattern of holiday...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126197
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Optimal Hedging Strategies for the U.S. Cattle Feeder
Noussinov, Mikhail A.; Leuthold, Raymond M. - EconWPA - 1998
Multiproduct optimal hedging is compared to alternative hedging strategies as applied to a Midwestern cattle feeder. One-period feeding margin hedge ratios are estimated using weekly cash and futures price data from a simulation of a custom feedlot for 1983-1995. Hedge ratios are estimated using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134698