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Over 70% of the domesticated birds in Kenya are indigenous chicken (IC) providing meat and table eggs. They are frequently raised through the free range, backyard production system. Small flock sizes are characteristic of this production system and often, sales are mainly at the farmgate....
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. Tests of causality indicated that futures prices strongly influence variations in spot price eight weeks or more to maturity … spot to futures. Risk constancy or neutrality, equality of risk premium and spot price, and efficiency were rejected for … and marketing decisions (e.g., ≥ 77 weeks) on the basis of futures market price can result in misallocation of resources …
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This study aims to analyze the empirical results of marketing margins and price transmission of some agricultural … that with the price transmission of the two products tested there is greater difficulty in passing on the producer price … final product price. Moreover, the greater perishability of lettuce influences the results significantly. …
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Interaction terms are often misinterpreted in the empirical economics literature by assuming that the coefficient of interest represents unconditional marginal changes. I present the correct way to estimate conditional marginal changes in a series of non-linear models including (ordered)...
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The purpose of this paper was to apply the econometric models with qualitative variables in order to analyze two non academic behaviors at the level of the Romanian higher education system: cheating on the exams by copying or by direct or intermediary intervention at the professor.
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We search for evidence against the hypothesis of a non-linear relationship between inflation and growth rates for 1993-2012 Peruvian data. A family of dichotomous models provide the way to model the relationship between the those two variables' cycles. Given the acceleration/de-acceleration...
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Using supermarket scanner data, we test a variety of hypotheses from trade journals about the invasion of private-label food products. According to conventional industry wisdom, name-brand firms defended their brands against new private-label products by lowering their prices, engaging in...
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The impact on price of current product quality and reputation are estimated using data from the market for Bordeaux … reputation. Equations determining price and expected quality are estimated jointly. The empirical findings show that the price … wine. A model is proposed in which price is a function of current quality and expected quality, where the latter depends on …
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A tanulmány célja az értékpapírok esetében leggyakrabban alkalmazott két aukciós technika (az egyenáras és a diszkriminatív áras aukció) összehasonlító elemzése. A szakirodalom elsősorban az aukció várható bevétele szempontjából elemzi a módszereket. Az elméleti...
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In an auction with a buy price, a seller offers bidders the opportunity to forgo competing in an auction by transacting … auction's reserve price and buy price, she does best to keep her aspirations sufficiently low by designing a no …-reserve auction with a buy price low enough that some bidder types would exercise it with positive probability in equilibrium. The …
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