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This study examines the relationship between farm size and productivity in U.S. agriculture during 1982-92. A nonparametric regression method is applied to detect ex-post geographical patterns in changes in farm size and productivity. The estimations show that (i) in 1982 productivity per acre...
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This study investigates convergence in hired farm wages in U.S. counties over the period 1978-92. The time-invariant distribution of wages is characterized using Markov chains. This study is concerned with two questions: Are regional hired farm wages moving in the same direction? If so, are they...
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) CAPM capital budgeting decision-making based on disequilibrium NPV is deductively inferred by the Capital Asset Pricing … Model, (ii) the use of the disequilibrium NPV is widespread in finance both as a decision rule and as a valuation tool, (iii …) the disequilibrium NPV does not guarantee additivity nor consistency with arbitrage pricing, so that it is unreliable for …
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The National Bioenergy Investment Model is a scenario model that simulates the decisions of domestic and international investors on whether to invest in biofuel enterprises in a developing country. In the model, investors compare the profitability of different biofuel feedstock and fuel...
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This article explains why the housing and commercial real estate market are in a permanent disequilibrium. The real …
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notions of disequilibrium NPV and economic profit are not equivalent if the standard NPV+CAPM is employed: NPV-minded agents … standard notion of disequilibrium (present) value, deductively derived from the CAPM by several authors, should therefore be …
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This paper presents a simple disequilibrium model in the primary housing market, calibrated to the Warsaw market. Our … aim is to point out that the primary housing market, due to the long construction process is always in disequilibrium …, which has important policy implications. We discuss the last housing cycle and show how a combination of slight demand …
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operate in disequilibrium,search and information costs become very important.Trafficking in drugs taken as case, to explore … understanding of the problem and based on that,effective policy formulation and enforcement.We find that psycho …
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capital, where the latter depends on the project’s disequilibrium systematic risk. It is shown that the disequilibrium net …
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This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
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