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Emergence of Organic Farming under Imperfect Competition: Economic Conditions and Incentives
Jaeck, Mélanie; Lifran, Robert; Stahn, Hubert - HAL - 2012
This article explores the economic conditions for the viability of organic farming in a context of imperfect competition. While most research dealing with this issue has adopted an empirical approach, we propose a theoretical foundation. Farmers have a choice between two technologies, the...
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Is participatory social learning a performance driver for Chinese smallholder farmers?
GUO, Huanxiu; Marchand, Sébastien - HAL - 2013
This paper aims to test the effect of smallholder farmers' participatory social learning on their gain of performance in a village of southwest China. By exploring a panel structure survey data collected in the village, we identify the social learning effect using a Spatial Autoregressive (SAR)...
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The environmental efficiency of non-certified organic farming in China: a case study of paddy rice production
GUO, Huanxiu; Marchand, Sébastien - HAL - 2013
This case study compares the environmental efficiency of non-certified organic and conventional rice production in southern China. Using plot-season level survey data, we first test the existence of a "technology gap" between the two types of production, and then calculate the environmental...
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Social activity and collective action for agricultural innovation: a case study of New Rural Reconstruction in China
Renard, Mary-Françoise; GUO, Huanxiu - HAL - 2013
Since 2003, a grass-roots movement of New Rural Reconstruction (NRR) has emerged in China to experience alternative model of rural development. The movement adopts a particular approach for rural development on basis of rural social and cultural reconstruction. In order to understand this social...
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Productivity
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Autant-Bernard, Corinne; Guironnet, Jean-Pascal; … - HAL - 2010
This paper investigates the effect of inter-firm and intra-firm spillovers on the productivity of firms, using French data. The Luenberger Productivity Indicator (LPI) is used to estimate the productivity and to break it down into several components (e.g. efficiency, biased technical progress,...
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Longevity, Pollution and Growth
Raffin, Natacha; Seegmuller, Thomas - HAL - 2012
We analyze the interplay between longevity, pollution and growth. We develop an OLG model where longevity, pollution …
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The Cost of Pollution on Longevity, Welfare and Economic Stability
Raffin, Natacha; Seegmuller, Thomas - HAL - 2014
This paper presents an overlapping generations model where pollution, private and public healths are all determinants … show that an appropriate fiscal policy may enhance welfare. However, when pollution is heavily harmful for longevity, the …
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Strategic Interactions in Environmental Regulation Enforcement: Evidence from Chinese Provinces
Renard, Mary-Françoise; Xiong, Hang - HAL - 2012
This paper studies whether Chinese provinces set strategically their environmental stringency when faced with interprovincial competition for mobile capital. Using Chinese provincial data and spatial panel econometric models, we find that Chinese provinces do engage in this kind of strategic...
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Polluting Industrialization
Constant, Karine; Nourry, Carine; Seegmuller, Thomas - HAL - 2011
link with pollution. We develop a simple overlapping generations model with paternalistic altruism according to wealth and … environmental concerns. One can therefore explain a simultaneous increase of capital intensity, population growth and pollution … capital intensity, population growth and pollution. …
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Optimal Nuclear Waste Burial Policy under Uncertainty
Kama, Alain Ayong Le; Fodha, Mouez - HAL - 2008
an accident might occur in the future. The framework is an optimal growth model with pollution disutility. We show, under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738598