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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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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 land parcels in New Zealand. This type of post-disaster damage assessments aims to allow for quantification of disaster damage when on-the-ground assessment of damage is too...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296265
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One chance in a million: altruism and the bone marrow registry
Bergstrom, Ted; Garratt, Rod; Sheehan-Connor, Damien - 2007
Transplants of donated stem cells save the lives of many patients with blood diseases. Donation is somewhat painful, but rarely has lasting adverse effects. Patients can accept transplants only from donors with compatible immune systems. Those lacking a sibling match must seek donations from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264202
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Genes, economics, and happiness
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Fowler, James H.; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
Research on happiness has produced valuable insights into the sources of subjective well-being. A major finding from this literature is that people exhibit a baseline happiness that shows persistent strength over time, and twin studies have shown that genes play a significant role in explaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266103
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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay
Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139418
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Politics-Business Co-evolution Paths : Workers’ Organization and Capitalist Concentration
Belloc, Marianna - 2012
Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116042
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Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus : Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists
Avery, Christopher - 2020
influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833728
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Economic Policy Uncertainty : Persistence and Cross-Country Linkages
Aikins Abakah, Emmanuel Joel - 2020
This paper provides new evidence on the stochastic behaviour of the EPU (Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index constructed by Baker et al. (2016) in six of the biggest economies (Canada, France, Japan, US, Ireland, and Sweden) over the period from January 1985 to October 2019. In particular,...
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