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EMERGING FORMS OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS
Barone, Michael J.; Decarlo, Thomas E. - 2003
Traditional recommendations for building sustainable competitive advantages revolve around differentiating a product from the competition along attributes that are important and relevant to customers. However, strategic approaches based on such notions do not represent viable options for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443041
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Spatial Price Analysis Incorporating Rate of Trade: Methods and Application to United States–China Soybean Trade
Han, Shengfei; Durham, Catherine A. - 2010
A regime-switching model for analysis of market integration has been developed that incorporates rate of trade information. An application of the methods to United States–China soybean trade demonstrates that the extended trade information allows better interpretation of market conditions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442648
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COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AS A BRAND: THE CASE OF NEW ZEALAND LAMB
Clemens, Roxanne; Babcock, Bruce A. - 2004
New Zealand has used country-of-origin labeling (COOL) as a "“country brand”" to differentiate New Zealand lamb in international markets and increase consumer awareness of this lamb as a high-quality imported product. The case of New Zealand lamb is especially interesting as an unsubsidized...
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CARICOM’s COMPETITIVENESS WITHIN THE US IMPORT MARKET FOR SPECIALTY CROPS: A SHIFT-SHARE ANALYSIS
Lowe, Garfield G.; Davis, Carlton George - 2007
This paper is based on the premise that if CARICOM’s agricultural sector in general, and more specifically the export sub-sector, is to thrive in the rapidly changing trade environment there has to be a continuous systematic assessment of market opportunities and competitiveness status. Such...
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MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES FOR JAMAICA’S GRAPEFRUIT INDUSTRY
Evans, Edward A.; Nalampang, Sikavas; Spreen, Thomas H. - 2007
illegal. One alternative worth considering is exporting fresh grapefruits to the EU. This marketing opportunity comes about as … the demand for the fruit in the EU could create a marketing opportunities for countries such as Jamaica. The paper … discusses the state of the Florida citrus industry with particular reference to grapefruits and the marketing prospects for …
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2000 OUTLOOK OF THE U.S. AND WORLD WHEAT INDUSTRIES, 1999-2001
Koo, Won W.; Taylor, Richard D. - 2000
This report evaluates the U.S. and world wheat markets for the 1999-2009 period by using the Global Wheat Policy Simulation Model. This analysis is based on a series of assumptions about general economic conditions, agricultural policies, weather conditions, and technological change. Both the...
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Estimation of Asymmetric Price Adjustment in the U.S. Soybean Trade Using Rolling TAR: The Relation with Market Structure
Nakajima, Toru - 2011
The threshold autoregressive (TAR) model by Enders and Granger (1998) and Enders and Siklos (2001) is a popular econometric model that estimates asymmetric price transmission (APT) with non-stationary time series data. However, empirical studies have not considered much the arbitrariness of...
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DAIRY MARKETS, POLICIES, AND TRADE IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
Swinnen, Johan F.M.; Dries, Liesbeth; Gow, Hamish R. - 2001
within marketing systems?A supply-side response has been the continued development of large-scale, urban-based industrial …
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The Impact of Trade Costs on Firm Entry, Exporting, and Survival in Korea
Kim, Sooil; Reimer, Jeffrey J.; Gopinath, Munisamy - 2009
This study uses a unique firm-level dataset to examine how falling trade costs from 1993-2001 affected entry, exit, productivity, and exporting in the Korean manufacturing sector. We verify many of the predictions of recent heterogeneous-firm models of international trade. For example, falling...
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The Integration of Tomato Markets in Ghana with and without Direct Trade Flows
Ihle, Rico; Amikuzuno, Joseph - 2009
Spatial market equilibrium theory views trade flow as the driving force behind market integration. We assess spatial price transmission between domestic tomato markets in Ghana to ascertain whether spatial price transmission veritably depends on direct trade between markets, or whether other...
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