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Impacts of Droughts and Floods on Agricultural Productivity in New Zealand as Measured from Space
Blanc, Élodie; Noy, Ilan - 2022
This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural … productivity. Overall, we find statistically significant declines in agricultural productivity that is associated with both floods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296265
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264330
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Sectoral Uncertainty
Castelnuovo, Efrem; Tuzcuoglu, Kerem; Uzeda, Luis - 2022
We propose a new empirical framework that jointly decomposes the conditional variance of economic time series into a common and a sector-specific uncertainty component. We apply our framework to a large dataset of disaggregated industrial production series for the US economy. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243086
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Real wage chronologies
Christofides, Louis N.; Peng, Amy Chen - 2007
explore the influence of productivity growth, the industrial relations record of the pair, the influence of industry and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264208
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Heckscher-Ohlin theory when countries have different technologies
Fisher, Eric O'N. - 2010
to make the proper adjustments for international productivity differences. The central tool is a factor conversion matrix …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270460
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Is Western European Agriculture Resilient to High Temperatures?
Massetti, Emanuele - 2019
agriculture is likely to be smooth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892286
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Droughts and Farms' Financial Performance in New Zealand : A Micro Farm-Level Study
Pourzand, Farnaz - 2019
We quantify the impacts of droughts in New Zealand on the profitability of dairy, and sheep and beef farms. Using a comprehensive administrative database of all businesses in New Zealand, we investigate the impact of droughts on farm revenue, profits, return on capital, business equity, debt to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870640
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Measuring the Immeasurable : The Evolution of the Size of Informal Economy in the Agricultural Sector in the EU-15 Up to 2019
Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021
This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple … higher levels of informal economy in agriculture compared to the overall economy. The impact of subsidies and farm … organizations on the development of the informal economy are two important factors for these higher values in agriculture. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239559
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Labor Market Policies and European Crises
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013
This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328760
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Intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in OECD manufacturing: a spatial econometric perspective
Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - 2008
We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264277