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Avian Influenza outbreaks and poultry production mitigation strategies in the U.S.

Mu, Jianhong H.; McCarl, Bruce A. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010

In this paper, two AI mitigation strategies are examined, quarantine and vaccination. Meanwhile, associated welfare … changes are evaluated by using FASOM. Results found that changes of total national welfare of U.S are insignificant with or …

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Distributional Impacts of Food Price Changes on Consumer Welfare in Hungary and Romania following EU Accession

Hubbard, Carmen; Szigeti, Judith; Podruzsik, Szilard - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

This paper focuses on the estimation of changes in economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles … rise in food prices has resulted in a welfare loss for all income deciles, particularly for those in the lower income … economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles) of Hungarian and Romanian consumers following food price …

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Land sharing vs. land sparing for biodiversity: How agricultural markets make the difference

Desquilbet, Marion; Dorin, Bruno; Couvet, Denis - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

We show that whether intensive or extensive farming is most beneficial to biodiversity depends on the equilibrium of agricultural markets. With higher production costs, extensive farming tends to be more beneficial to biodiversity than intensive farming, except when there is a very high degree...

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Promoting Organic Food: Information Policy Versus Production Subsidy

Tribl, Christoph; Salhofer, Klaus - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

welfare. The efficiency of any policy measure considered strongly depends on the utility enhancement experienced by organic …

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Welfare Measurement and Quality Product Differentiation in Agriculture: An Example From the EU15 Beef Sector

Ramos, Maria Priscila; Drogue, Sophie; Marette, Stephan - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

This paper examines the impact of two different model specifications on welfare estimations. A model specification that …. The welfare comparison under both specifications show some biases of aggregation as well as ambiguous results: the welfare … under one specification may be larger or lower than the welfare under the alternative assumption. In order to illustrate our …

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Can Risk Reducing Policies Reduce Farmer's Risk and Improve Their Welfare?

Anton, Jesus; Giner, Celine - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

between policy measures and market strategies in terms of impacts on production, welfare and risk. Risk reducing strategies … the impact on the farmer's welfare depends on the trade-off between optimal farm return and farm income variability … can be a trade off between risk reduction and farmers' welfare. …

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An assessment of farmer’s risk exposures and policy impacts on farmer’s risk management strategy

Anton, Jesus; Kimura, Shingo - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

instruments and impacts on farm return and welfare. Unlike other studies this paper models farming response to payments in terms … government objective, for instance risk reduction versus farmers’ welfare. …

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Welfare Measures and Mandatory Regulation for Transgenic Food in the European Union: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis

Diez, Maria Del Carmen Fernandez - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

This paper presents an analytical framework for studying the impact of mandatory labelling regulation for transgenic food. We compare Genetically Modified (GM) and conventional crop markets and identify gains for food processors prior to mandatory labelling and losses after this measure for the...

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Is Obesity Contagious? A Case Study of International Graduate Students.

Katare, Bhagyashree - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA; … - 2014

International students offer an unique opportunity to study the extent to which environment causes obesity. Because international students have an imperfect ability to choose their destination and are less aware of the social and cultural conditions in and around the university campus we argue...

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Panel Data Estimation Techniques for Farm-level Data Model

Platoni, Silvia; Sckokai, Paolo; Moro, Daniele - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

Econometric models wishing to estimate relevant parameters for agricultural policy analysis are increasingly relying on unbalanced panels of farm-level data. Since in the agricultural economics literature such models have often been estimated through simplified approaches, in this paper we try...

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