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. The highest growth within the region has occurred in the last two decades, especially due to improvements in efficiency …
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In this paper we try to contribute to the understanding of the persistence and increase of meat eating in the face of … mounting evidence on the ills of meat production and consumption by considering the role of selective attention and learning … campaigns about the externalities of meat consumption might be ineffective as the informational content may be lost on precisely …
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This paper analyzes price collusion in a repeated game with two submarkets; a standard and a premium quality segment. Within this setting, we study four types of price-fixing agreement: (i) a segment-wide cartel in the premium submarket only, (ii) a segment-wide cartel in the standard submarket...
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We propose a theory of how market power affects wage inequality. We ask how goods and labor market power jointly affect the level of wages, the Skill Premium, and wage inequality. We then use detailed microdata from the US Census between 1997 and 2016 to estimate the parameters of labor supply,...
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, economic and demographic growth could boost the demand for meat, with significant environmental repercussions. We model meat … tables. We find that, depending on the interplay of resources efficiency and demand growth, by 2050 global greenhouse gases … electricity may be consumed. These results suggest that - in the absence of drastic resource efficiency or technological …
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also focused on large farms due to their share of output, efficiency gains from vertical and horizontal integration, and … at the municipality level into five farm-size classes. The findings of this study point to heavy technical efficiency …
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sector, to improve its operational efficiency. Meanwhile, great concern about a range of environmental problems and global … study first adopts the game cross-efficiency approach to evaluate the environmental efficiency of the generation sectors in … indicate that efficiency gaps do exist among the regions even though overall efficiency has been improved. Despite the negative …
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This paper investigates the efficiency of the public sector in a sense of public performance and expenditures. For 23 …, security and infrastructure. We use several efficiency techniques (FDH, order-m) and investigate input- and output …-oriented efficiency of the public sector. We find that countries with small public sectors tend to be more efficient no matter which …
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