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Deryugina, Tatyana - 2016

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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture

Andersen, Matt A.; Pardey, Philip G. - 2022

U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today’s agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms …

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Nutritional Status and Agricultural Surpluses in the Antebellum United States

Craig, Lee A.; Weiss, Thomas - 2021

We model the relationship between local agricultural surpluses, nutritional status, and height, and we test the hypothesis that adult height is positively correlated with the local production of nutrition in infancy. We test the hypothesis on two samples of Union Army recruits - one consisting...

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Internal Net Worth and the Investment Process : an Application to U.S. Agriculture

Hubbard, R. Glenn; Kashyap, Anil K. - 2021

Recent models of firm investment decisions stressing informational imperfections in capital markets provide a foundation for interpreting evidence that movements in internal finance can predict investment opportunities. While such evidence is suggestive, it is often open to other...

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Property Rights to Land and Agricultural Organization : An Argentina-United States Comparison

Edwards, Eric; Fiszbein, Martin; Libecap, Gary - 2022

The contributions of Harold Demsetz offer key insights on how property rights and transaction costs shape economic organization. This guides our comparison of agricultural organization in two comparable regions, the Argentine Pampas and the US Midwest. In the US, land was distributed in small...

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Academic Engagement, Commercialization, and Scholarship : Empirical Evidence from Agricultural and Life Scientists at U.S. Land-Grant Universities

Barham, Bradford; Foltz, Jeremy D.; Melo, Ana Paula - 2021

This article examines the involvement of agricultural and life science faculty at U.S. land grant universities in two types of university-industry relations: academic engagement (sponsored research, industry collaborations, and presentations), academic commercialization (patenting, licensing,...

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Implications of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) for investment flows between the European Union and the USA

Witkowska, Janina - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 20 (2017) 3, pp. 25-39

consequences for the EU Member states. A less discussed issue is the potential implications of the agreement on the state of … the economic, political and legal implications of TTIP provisions for FDI flows between the EU and the USA. The proposals …

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Fiscal policy in Poland in the times of crisis - origins and consequences

Krajewski, Stefan; Krajewska, Anna - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 14 (2011) 2, pp. 79-100

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Comparative analysis of the recent financial crisis' impact on the retail electronic commerce in the European Union in the USA and in Poland

Czajkowski, Tomsz - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 14 (2011) 2, pp. 61-78

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Innovativeness of the US economy. Permanent or weakening dominance?

Kasperkiewicz, Witold; Rogalski, Wiesław Jan - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 13 (2010) 4, pp. 61-80

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