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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/10012582000
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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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Is Western European Agriculture Resilient to High Temperatures?
Massetti, Emanuele; Van Passel, Steven; Apablaza, Camila - 2018
agriculture is likely to be smooth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932036
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Using Degree Days to Value Farmland
Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert; Chonabayashi, Shun - 2014
Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480831
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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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Droughts and farms' financial performance in New Zealand: a micro farm-level study
Pourzand, Farnaz; Noy, Ilan; Saglam, Yigit - 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/10012018324
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What Stayers Do? Capital Endowments and On-Farm Transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi; Luo, Mingzhong - 2018
agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932056
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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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Testing the Pareto efficiency of household resource allocations
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264378