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I introduce a novel general equilibrium framework for agricultural trade policy analysis with heterogeneous producers … able to generate more nuanced predictions for how bilateral agricultural trade and production patterns shift in response to … model. This framework promises to allow researchers to make more informed predictions for how global agricultural trade and …
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The present study highlights the context of wheat futures trading in India and examines its performance in terms of price transmission between Indian and US futures, domestic futures and spot markets, and, extent of integration between those markets. Role of wheat futures in price...
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vulnerable are the children from rural households which depend entirely on seasonal agricultural production and income, and … survive on diets that are deficiency in proteins and other important nutrients. Agricultural diversification and … Propensity Score Marching (PSM) and Generalized Propensity Score (GPS), this article evaluates the impact of agricultural …
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We introduce a fast and inexpensive method to rule out potential barriers to adopting a technology. We use this method to asses the role of exogeneous contract enforcement as a barrier to market for Kenya's French Bean export market. We survey 240 farmers in Kirinyaga County, Kenya who were...
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We develop a new parametric bootstrap-based statistical test for presence of futures price and options-based implied volatility biases. The new test is applicable to data with overlapping prediction horizons. Information on anticipated volatility embedded in options prices is explicitly used...
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climate change on crop yields or other economic indicators of agricultural productivity. Previous studies have tended to focus …
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With the increasing frequency of extreme climatic events, the new challenge is to develop rice varieties that are tolerant of drought, water submergence, and salinity. There are now new high yielding GSR cultivars developed at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) with increased...
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The United States Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts hundreds of … surveys each year on topics related to the U.S. agricultural industry. One important set of data published by NASS is the … general level of price change compared to a base reference period for agricultural commodities sold and farm inputs purchased …
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