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Price versus Non-price Incentives for Participation in Quality Labeling: The Case of the German Fruit Juice Industry
Bleich, Simon; Herrmann, Roland - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 04 (2013) 1
Quality assurance and labeling play an important and increasing role in firms’ marketing strategies. In almost all cases, a price incentive has been stressed as the major incentive for firms to participate in such schemes. We argue here that important non-price incentives for participation in...
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Price Versus Non-price Incentives for Participation in Quality Labeling: The Case of the German Fruit Juice Industry
Herrmann, Roland; Bleich, Simon - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2013
Quality assurance and labeling play an important and increasing role in firms’ marketing strategies. In almost all cases, a price incentive has been stressed as the major incentive for firms to participate in such schemes. We argue here that important non-price incentives for participation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078220
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Market Entry and the Proper Scope of Copyright
Ghosh, Shubha - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 12 (2005) 3, pp. 347-359
The author presents a model of copyright law as a means to regulate entry into information markets. The model shows under what conditions copyright rules may lead to excessive or insufficient entry. The entry conditions are used to assess the efficacy of copyright rules in maximizing the sum of...
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Reputation, Drohungen und Vergeltung: Wiederholte Spiele als Bezugsrahmen für die Analyse von Markteintritten
Kohn, Karsten - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 2, pp. 185-214
the roles of threats and reputation, cooperation, and retaliation. Dovetailing the theory of repeated games and empirical …
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L'irrigation dans la communaute Andine: a une construction sociale.
Boelens, Rutgerd; Appollin, Frederic - International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
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CAP subsidies and productivity of the EU farms
Rizov, Marian; Pokrivcak, Jan; Ciaian, Pavel - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
The paper investigates the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies on farm total factor productivity (TFP) in the European Union (EU). We employ a structural semi-parametric estimation algorithm directly incorporating the effect of subsidies into a model of unobserved...
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Investment and Change in the Coconut Industry of North Sulawesi: An Equilibrium Displacement Analysis
Henderson, Benjamin B.; Henry, Lynn A.; MacAulay, T. Gordon - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006
The coconut industry of North Sulawesi is dominated by a small number of products which are primarily exported from the province. Accordingly, demand for these products is generally very elastic. Conversely, the supply of coconuts is highly inelastic, especially in the short to medium-term....
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Donor Aid Cuts, Kenya Elections Affect Uganda Business Climate
Joseph, Mawejje - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2012
In the October – December quarter of 2012, the business climate index declined to 4.5 points having recorded a score of 8 points in the previous (July – September) quarter. The deterioration of business environment perceptions emanated from elevated risks arising from the budget support...
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Is Competition Good for Innovation? A Simple Approach to an Unresolved Question
Schmutzler, Armin - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Microeconomics 5 (2010) 6, pp. 355-428
The relation between the intensity of competition and R&D investment has received a lot of attention, both in the …
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Investment in Cellulosic Biofuel Refineries: Does the Waivable Mandate Matter?
Miao, Ruiqing; Babcock, Bruce A.; Hennessy, David A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) aims to support investment in cellulosic biofuel refineries by mandating a floor on the … conceptual model to study the impact of RINs on stimulating investment in cellulosic biofuel refineries under a waivable mandate …. In a two-period framework, we compare the first-period investment level in three scenarios: (1) laissez-faire, (2) non …
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