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Evaluating the environmental performance of a building is rapidly gaining importance as a metric in real estate investments. Since interpretation of the technical measurements is difficult and requires high expertise, investors tend to rely on markers as provided by environmental certification...
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This paper examines how efficiently the price premium for non-genetically modified (non-GM) soybeans at the Tokyo Grain Exchange (TGE) react to an announcement to change the contract unit, suppliers, and expiration date on the conventional soybean futures contract. Intervention analysis is used...
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Sex workers receive a price premium for unprotected sex. Research has inferred that the source of this premium is a compensating differential for STI risk. I introduce a compensating differential for pregnancy risk as a novel source through a simple model that incorporates both STI risk and...
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This paper develops a brief history of coffee in Colombia identifying the processes of change in the geography and … populations. From the eighteenth to the twentieth century, coffee cultivation represented the basis of household income. Changes … in rural and urban culture of the nineteenth century were influenced by the coffee trade, likewise the fundamental …
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Tests for causality and rationality in the coffee futures market were carried out using data from the New York Market … for contracts with 55-77 weeks to maturity. The general conclusion from this study is that coffee futures market can be …
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This paper deals with institutional persistence in long-term economic development. We investigate the historical record of education in one of the fastest growing and most unequal societies in the twentieth century – the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Based on historical data from an...
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Coffee is the leading agricultural sector in terms of both the number and frequent use of social and environmental … 1990s to approximately 4% of global green coffee exports in 2006 making it a multi-billion dollar segment of the industry …. The US and Canada account for over one quarter of global coffee imports in value. Their consumers are increasingly …
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The State of Sustainable Coffee provides the first comprehensive overview of the market conditions facing, organic … eclipsed the growth rate of conventional coffee for more than a decade. As a result of their strict environmental and social … the coffee sector that has arguably developed the most advanced experience with certified organic, fair trade, and eco …
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The coffee segment that is known as sustainable has grown much faster than nearly any other industry segment in the … on the global trade volumes for all of the certified (or verified) coffee in the past decade and the distribution by …
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Due to the specific characteristics of coffee production on each of the main Brazilian states producers of arabica … (Coffea arabica) and robusta coffee (Coffea canephora), a better understanding of the structural links between production and … industrialization of coffee on those states and the national economy can provide subsides for implementation of public policies …
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