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In the search for effective pesticide risk management tools, the design of pesticide risk indicators is nowadays … recently developed pesticide risk indices and test their potential for management purposes. A pilot approach is proposed, which … explores pesticide worst-case hazard scenarios at different space-time scales by means of a set of 5 ecotoxicological risk …
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Pesticide use in agriculture poses several risks to both human health and non-target agro-ecosystems. Due to lack of … information on the monetary value of reducing pesticide risks, it is difficult to perform an economic analysis that addresses … to present a critical overview of the empirical literature on pesticide risk valuation that provides disaggregate …
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This paper argues that the conventional definition of the elasticity of complementarity is not well suited to deal with the case of increasing returns. It proposes a slightly different formula, that uses a distance function formulation instead of a production function. The proposed definition...
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This paper examines the determinants of organizational scale and scope, with applications to various industries, including financial services. We build a model in which new opportunities arise for firms, but the skills needed to exploit them effectively are unknown. Early investments in these...
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