The paper considers the relationship between trust and governance structure from a Transaction Cost Economicsperspective. The role of trust in the coordinating decisions is variously conceptualized according to the theoreticalview adopted by the scholars. The present study adopt the...

When a traceability system takes place, either when mandatory or voluntary, many questions arise that need to beaddressed and answered. One of the firsts concerns whether it introduces new costs with no gain in efficiency or,on the contrary, the system efficiency increases lowering costs and, as...

D'Elia and Piccolo (2005) have recently proposed a mixture distribution, named CUB, for ordinal data. The use ofsuch a mixture distribution for modelling ratings is justified by the following consideration: the judgment that asubject expresses is the result of two components, uncertainty and...

Based on recent development of international economics, this paper aims to evaluate in what extent privatestandards impact trade, and more precisely trade of French agri‐food firms.Our paper explores an original "handmade" database identifying French agri‐food firms which are certified...

Using a squential logit model and a mixed-effects logistic regression approach this empirical study investigates factors for the adoption of automatic milking technology (AMS) at the farm level accounting for problems of sequential sample selection and behaviour identification. The results...

Previous studies emphasize that shocks can cause households to fall into poverty traps and to remain there because of risk aversion, yet to date there has been no attempt to discern whether shocks increase risk aversion over time in a developing country. We examine whether shocks increase risk...

Accurate targeting is key for the success of any development policy. While a number of factors might explain low targeting efficiency such as governance failure, political interference or lack of political will, this paper focuses on improving indicator-based models that identify poor households...

Eradicating poverty is one of the most urgent concerns of development policies. Organisations aiming at reducing poverty need simple and stable tools to detect poor households. Using data from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, this study aims to test first whether two indicators sets for poverty...

The achievement of food security for all remains one of the main development objectives worldwide. Most commonly, non-spatial models are developed for either explaining the underlying determinants of food insecurity and undernourishment or for predicting their changes, so as for identifying...

Our paper looks at how price volatility in the Brazilian ethanol industry changes over time and across markets. Demand and supply forces in the energy and food markets are likely to ensure that crude oil, ethanol and feedstock prices co-move in the long-run. Hence, when assessing price...