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Crop insurance in transition: a qualitative and quantitative assessment of insurance products
Bokusheva, Raushan - 2004
This discussion paper considers insurance as a possible instrument of farm income stabilization and compares several crop insurance products with respect to their applicability in a transition economy using the case of Kazakhstan. The analysis is based on a qualitative evaluation as well a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299333
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Which type of crop insurance for Kazakhstan? Empirical results
Heidelbach, Olaf; Bokusheva, Raushan; Kussaiynov, Talgat - 2004
Risk plays an important role in agricultural decision-making, particularly in those regions that are remarkably exposed … conditions, risk attitudes and risk management techniques with respect to the requirements of a functioning crop insurance system …Risiko spielt eine wichtige Rolle im Entscheidungsprozess landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmer, insbesondere in Regionen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299344
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Direct investment and Germany as a business location
Jost, Thomas - 1997
The unfavourable balance of foreign direct investment plays a major role in the ongoing debate on the quality of Germany as a business location. High direct investment outflows and low inflows compared with the United Kingdom and France are often seen as a sign of weakness of Germany as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478837
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Direktinvestitionen und Standort Deutschland
Jost, Thomas - 1997
The unfavourable balance of foreign direct investment plays a major role in the ongoing debate on the quality of Gennany as a business location. High direct investment outflows and low inflows compared with the United Kingdom and France are often seen as a sign of weakness of the Gennan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478838
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Social media and mental health
Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro'ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022
The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197560
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Macroeconomic Policy and Unemployment by Economic Activity: Evidence from Turkey
Berument, Hakan; Dogan, Nukhet; Tansel, Aysit - 2008
This paper investigates how macroeconomic policy shocks in Turkey affect the total unemployment and provides evidence on the differential responses of the unemployment by sectors of economic activity. Our paper extends the previous work in two respects. First, we consider not only the response...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320577
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A Gravity Equation for Commuting
Persyn, Damiaan - 2013
This paper derives a gravity equation for commuter flows from a simple spatial labor market model, and uses it to identify the effect of regional borders on commuting. This structural approach allows us to identify the relevant control variables and sources of potential omitted variable bias....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079891
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АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ АСПЕКТЫ СТРАХОВАНИЯ В СЕЛЬСКОМ ХОЗЯЙСТВЕ
Bokusheva, Raushan; Heidelbach, Olaf - 2004
main aspects of insurance as one tool of risk management in agriculture. Thus, our purpose is to give the reader …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299407
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Risk, Time Pressure, and Selection Effects
Kocher, Martin; Schindler, David; Trautmann, Stefan; … - 2018
Time pressure is a central aspect of economic decision making nowadays. It is therefore natural to ask how time pressure affects decisions, and how to detect individual heterogeneity in the ability to successfully cope with time pressure. In the context of risky decisions, we ask whether a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932949
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Electricity market operation: Transitioning from a free market to a single buyer structure
Daglish, Toby; Fiuza de Bragança, Gabriel Godofredo; … - 2016
We examine electricity market reform in Brazil: from the 1990s till 2004 the largely hydro-powered market cleared using a market mechanism, and in March 2004 reformed to a single buyer structure. We model monthly log price differences using a two-state Markov Switching model, allowing water...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234228