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Online business platforms and international trade

Carballo, Jerónimo; Rodriguez Chatruc, Marisol; Salas … - 2020 - This version: June 2020

International trade is subject to information incompleteness. Firms must therefore engage in a costly search process to find business partners. Online platforms can reduce these search costs and thereby favor firms exports. We examine whether this is actually the case and the underlying...

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An integrated analysis of the impact of gender diversity on innovation and productivity in manufacturing firms : prepared for the institutions for development sector

Gallego, Juan Miguel; Gutiérrez Urdaneta, Luis H. - 2018

This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … endogeneity issues of women’s participation in STI and innovation behavior. An upward bias of the impact of gender diversity on … innovation might arise because more dynamic and innovative managers, knowing the value of gender diversity, may also hire more …

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Mapping diversity in social history

Sori, Ercole - 2003

The paper is an overview of diversity in history, starting as far back as the societies in classical Ancient Europe and … between status and class. The second part of the paper is devoted to diversity outside formal society with the definitions of … diversity and marginality. …

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Opinion dynamics and wisdom under conformity

Buechel, Berno; Hellmann, Tim; Kölßner, Stefan - 2014

We study a dynamic model of opinion formation in social networks. In our model, boundedly rational agents update opinions by averaging over their neighbors' expressed opinions, but may misrepresent their own opinion by conforming or counter-conforming with their neighbors. We show that an...

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Convergence of cultural traits with time-varying self-confidence in the Panebianco (2014) model : a corrigendum

Panebianco, Fabrizio; Prummer, Anja; Siedlarek, Jan-Peter - 2017

We highlight that convergence in repeated averaging models commonly used to study cultural traits or opinion dynamics is not equivalent to convergence in Markov chain settings if transition matrices are time-varying. We then establish a new proof for the convergence of cultural traits in the...

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Socio-economic impact of mobile phones on Indian agriculture

Mittal, Surabhi; Gandhi, Sanjay; Tripathi, Gaurav - 2010

Deficits in physical infrastructure, problems with availability of agricultural inputs and poor access to agriculture-related information are the major constraints on the growth of agricultural productivity in India. The more rapid growth of mobile telephony as compared to fixed line telephony...

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The effect of risk, ambiguity and coordination on farmers' adaptation to climate change : a framed field experiment

Alpízar R., Francisco; Carlsson, Frederik; Naranjo, Maria - 2010

The risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly differ between farmers sharing a productive landscape. It is important to learn more about how farmers react to different levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable...

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The impact of agricultural extension for improved management practices : an evaluation of the Uruguayan livestock program

Maffioli, Alessandro; Muffally, Conner - 2014

Management is an important input into agricultural production, as it a determinant of the uptake and proper implementation of productive technologies and practices. While there is a large literature on evaluations of extension programs meant to improve management practices in agricultural...

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Food security and productivity impacts of technology adoption in small subsistence farmers in Bolivia

Salazar, Lina; Aramburu, Julián; González-Flores, Mario; … - 2015

This paper presents the impact evaluation of CRIAR program, implemented in rural areas in Bolivia. The objective of CRIAR is to increase smallholders' agricultural income and food security through productivity improvements triggered by technological adoption. In this study, we use data from a...

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Can numerical models estimate indirect land-use change?

Brunelle, Thierry; Dumas, Patrice - 2012

Motivated by the conclusions from various modelling studies, modifications to the bioenergy sector regulations are under way in Europe and in the USA to account for emissions from indirect land-use change (ILUC). Despite their influence on the policy-making, evaluations of the capacity of...

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