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European market integration for gas? : volume flexibility and political risk
Asche, Frank; Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - 2000
substantial price differences between gas from different export countries, and do prices move together? Time series of Norwegian …, Dutch and Russian gas export prices to Germany in 1990-1998 are examined. Cointegration tests show that the different border … prices for gas to Germany move proportionally over time, indicating an integrated gas market (the Law of One Price holds). We …
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Coerced labor in the cotton sector : how global commodity prices (don't) transmit to the poor
Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - 2016 - This Version: May 2016
's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482929
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Droughts and farms' financial performance in New Zealand : a micro farm-level study
Pourzand, Farnaz; Noy, Ilan; Sağlam, Yiğit - 2019
attributable to drought-induced increases in the price of milk solids (New Zealand is the market maker in this global market). In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002991
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Is Western European agriculture resilient to high temperatures?
Massetti, Emanuele; Van Passel, Steven; Apablaza, Camila - 2018
We estimate a Ricardian model of Western European agricultural land values using farm-level data. We model the effect of temperature on land values using a flexible specification of daily mean temperature to test if there are temperature threshold effects. Results indicate that there are no...
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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
While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to account for a large share of employment. We study the...
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Can peers improve agricultural productivity?
Songsermsawas, Tisorn; Baylis, Kathy; Chhatre, Ashwini; … - 2014
Productivity varies greatly among farmers and the source of that variation is not fully understood. Using a unique Indian household survey, we estimate peer effects on agricultural revenue. Results show that 60% of farmers' revenue is explained by peers. Input expenditures and land allocation to...
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Using degree days to value farmland
Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert O.; … - 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...
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The power of markets : impact of desert locust invasions on child health
Conte, Bruno; Piemontese, Lavinia; Tapsoba, Augustin - 2021
the latter. We also document a substantial impact of the plague on crop price inflation before the harvest, as well as a …
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Valuing the time of the self-employed
Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - 2022
People’s value for their own time is a key input in evaluating public policies: evaluations should account for time taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive...
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Hurricanes, economic growth and transmission channels : empirical evidence for developed and underdeveloped countries
Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2016
how disasters affect long-run growth. Based on truly exogenous storm indicators, derived from a meteorological database … protect against storm consequences. We show that the negative growth effects in underdeveloped countries are amplified by an …
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