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The objective of the paper is to identify the determinants of access to health care in rural Russia. We started out with the observation that the transition process has affected the provision of social services in the Russian Federation in general, and in rural areas in particular, owing to the...
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crisis. This paper studies a crisis due to an alert concerning a risk of listeria on a raw milk camembert brand. The … investigation relies on individual data. Two results of risk economy are confirmed. Firstly, information has asymmetric effects …
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intentions in the case of broiler meat. In the case of each risk products the attitude-level variables had importance in … explaining the buying intentions. The heterogeneity of the respondents regarding the purchase intentions of risk products was … analysed by latent class logistic regression that included all three risk products. About 60% of the respondents belonged to …
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. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affected individuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in high flooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk related behaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …
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specialisation as the classical instruments of coping with production risk. Although the measurement of embedded risk is often …
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, ecological economic and econometric frameworks are developed and applied to evaluate potential risk-reducing effects of species … experiment covering in total 60 species and a period of 6 years. We find empirical evidence for the risk-reducing effect of … species diversity and the economic assessment reveals significant insurance values associated with diversity for a risk averse …
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The French government and private companies are currently working on a scheme to insure grassland production. Objectives of this study are first to analyse how grassland yield insurance would substitute to self insurance in suckler cow farms and with which effects on profit distribution, second...
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We formulate and estimate a farm level simulation model of agricultural crop production, and apply it to a scenario with increasing yield variability. The objective function is of the mean-variance utility type with a positive mathematical programming (PMP) cost function, and it is estimated...
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This article studies the influence of risk on farms’ technical efficiency levels. The analysis extends the order … production risks increases the technical performance. A 10% increase in output risk will result in a 2.5% increase in average …
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a risk measure called β. What is particularly important about this model is that it is currently applied in the industry …
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