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Tanyeri-Abur, Aysen; Rosson, C. Parr - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 16 (1997) 1

and import demand for dairy products in Mexico to determine price and income elasticities as well as import elasticities …. The results indicate that the demand for fluid milk is the most responsive to price changes and NFDM demand is inelastic … relatively elastic, which suggests the existence of other substitutes for fluid milk. Estimation of import demand equations …

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The Calculation of returns to research In distorted markets: Comment

Voon, Jan P.; Edwards, Geoff W. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 05 (1991) 1

In a recent article, Oehmke reported that a high internal rate of return for investment in research when the interaction between research and price policy costs was disregarded could become very low or even negative when the effects of research on the costs of price policy were considered. In...

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Cost structure and technical change in rural banking

Obben, James - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 08 (1993) 3

Using the multi-product translog cost function, this paper examines the cost structure and technical change occurring within the novel Ghanaian rural banks. The results of the seemingly unrelated error components model indicate substantial unexploited economies of scale in individual products as...

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Farm-level nonparametric analysis of cost-minimization and profit-maximization behavior

Featherstone, Allen M.; Moghnieh, Ghassan A.; Goodwin, … - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 13 (1995) 2

This study investigates non-parametrically the optimizing behavior of a sample of 289 Kansas farms under profit-maximization and cost-minimization hypotheses. The study uses both deterministic and stochastic non-parametric tests. The deterministic results do not support strict adherence to...

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Are piglet prices rational hog price forecasts?

Gjolberg, Ole - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 13 (1995) 2

In this paper a simple model is developed in which the piglet price serves as a forecast for the hog price 3 months ahead. The model is tested on data from Northern Europe, viz. Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland during the period 1982-1992. The empirical results lend strong support to the...

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A proposal for the reduction of domestic price variability during the phase-in period of trade liberalization

Hayes, Dermot J.; Wahl, Thomas I.; Johnson, S.R. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 07 (1992) 1

Countries replacing existing trade barriers with a fixed tariff may find that domestic price variability rises to politically unacceptable levels. This paper shows how the tariff-reduction formula can be modified to delay the transmission of world price variability. The importance of this...

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Impact of the US-EC price war on major wheat exporters' shares of the Chinese market

Ahmadi-Esfahani, Fredoun Z.; Jensen, Paul H. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 10 (1994) 1

China is both the world's largest producer and consumer of wheat. In an attempt to gain a larger slice of the important Chinese market, both the European Community and the United States have offered China subsidised wheat. In addition, other exporters have offered attractive credit arrangements...

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Impacts of price and exchange rate policies on pesticide use in the Philippines

Tjornhom, Jessica D.; Norton, George W.; Gapud, Victor - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 18 (1998) 2

is a 6 to 8% pesticide subsidy. This subsidy results in economic surplus gains to vegetable producers and consumers when …

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An application of cointegration theory in the estimation of the Almost Ideal Demand system for food consumption in Bulgaria

Balcombe, K.G.; Davis, J.R. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 15 (1996) 1

The Almost Ideal Demand system is applied to consumption in Bulgaria. It is argued that the conventional estimation of … canonical cointegrating regression procedure of Park is applied. It is argued that the results of the Almost Ideal Demand system …

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The demand for food and beverages in Norway

Rickersten, Kyrre - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 18 (1998) 1

The demand for food and beverages is estimated within a three-stage demand model. The separability structure of the … interpreted as results of measurement errors. The almost ideal demand system is used in the static and a dynamic version. The … the dynamic version. Norwegian demand elasticities for disaggregate food commodities have rarely been estimated within a …

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