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comparative advantage (trade) and foreign direct investment flows. It discusses several forms and the prevalence of forced labour … investment is negatively linked with forced labour. This result even holds for relatively poor developing countries …
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This paper aims at examining the relation between the international trade and the environment, particularly focused on sensitive agribusiness sectors. It consists on an empirical test to the conflicting positions supported by economists, some following the traditional approach (trade-off or...
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) is known as a very relevant driver of economic growth and has found increased attention …
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The present study examines factor content in the CEE transition country agricultural trade. However, deviating from the traditional approach, we do not test the HOV prediction. Instead, we examine the theoretical predictions that relate the factor content of international trade to cross-country...
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The paper empirically explores the international linkages between gender inequality and trade flows of a sample of 92 developed and developing countries. The focus is on comparative advantage in labour-intensive manufactured goods. The results indicate that gender wage inequality is positively...
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The paper addresses the linkage between certain aspects of the increasing economic integration of world markets and the level of child labour. We empirically examine, first, the often-cited conventional wisdom that multinational enterprises invest in countries where the extent of child labour is...
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impact land use decisions in case of risk-averse behaviour. In this paper we assess the effect of volatile agricultural … shares negatively. Producer’s output responses, therefore, were consistently affected by risk-averse behaviour. …
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production risk is accounted as an intra-year risk; yearly farming operations are declined according to a decision tree where … farmers that are experiencing this innovation in South-western France. The price risk is randomly distributed with a given … engagement. They also show that both a high risk aversion and a highly positive market trend tend to slow down the conversion …
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This paper estimates optimal hedging ratios for a Finnish spring wheat producer under price and yield risk. The forward … yield volatility are estimated from the field experiment data. A range of coefficients of absolute risk aversion are used in …
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of family farms and socialist-style farms in the presence of risk, given the typical post-socialist environment …
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