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ON INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS AND THE ALLOCATION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN RUSSIA’S TRANSITION
Petrick, Martin - 2010
historische Hinweise, dass dieVerbreitung von unternehmerischen Eigenschaften und Verhalten in Russland deutlich geringerist als …
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Das Städtesystem der Russischen Föderation aus Sicht der Neuen Ökonomischen Geographie
Kauffmann, Albrecht - 2010
Russia after price liberalisation in 1992. At the same time, the Russian official demographic statistics provides data that …
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EU-Russia energy relations: What chance for solutions? : A focus on the natural gas sector
Böhme, Dimo - 2011
Public debate about energy relations between the EU and Russia is distorted. These distortions present considerable … demand. Diverse interests inside the EU prevent the definition of a coherent and respected energy policy. Russia, for its … role of mere energy exporter. In view of the intensifying struggle for global resources, Russia, with its large energy …
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Reinsuring Group Revenue Insurance with Exchange-Provided Revenue Contracts
Babcock, Bruce A.; Hayes, Dermot J.; Griffin, Steven C. - 1999
Building on recent work by Mirand and Glauber (1997), this report shows that it is feasible to use exchange-based contracts as a substitute for the Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA). The contract we analyze here is a Group Revenue Contract, which would allow producers to guarantee against...
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The Application and Modification of Delegation - Agent model in Agricultural Insurance
Xue, Hai-Lian; Zhang, Hai-Xia - 2010
The delegation-agent models in agricultural assurance are established both under the circumstances of information symmetry and information asymmetry. Insurers choose effort level —a* according to the first order optimal condition of at the present stage when the information is symmetric. While...
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El nuevo seguro de ingresos de la patata: una evaluacion preliminar
Estavillo, Julio; Aguado, Salomon; Bielza, Maria; … - 2005
En 2003 y 2004, se ofreció por primera vez en España un seguro que protege contra la caída de precios en origen de un producto agrícola. Se trata de un seguro de rentas lanzado con carácter piloto para las producciones de patata de media estación y patata tardía en cinco provincias...
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El seguro de ingresos como instrumento de estabilizacion de las rentas de los agricultores: aplicacion al sector olivarero espanol
Bielza, Maria; Garrido, Alberto; Sumpsi, Jose Maria - 2002
RESUMEN: En este artículo se analizan un conjunto de políticas de estabilización de los ingresos de los productores olivareros españoles, entre las que se incluyen seguros de rendimientos e ingresos. En teoría y bajo ciertos supuestos, la estabilización de los ingresos con un seguro de...
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DEMAND FOR RAINFALL-INDEX BASED INSURANCE: A CASE STUDY FROM MOROCCO
McCarthy, Nancy - 2003
In this paper, we derive estimates for willingness to pay for rainfall-index based insurance contracts. Surveys were undertaken in four regions in Morocco, representing different mean and variability of rainfall conditions. Results indicate that respondents in the high variability regions...
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Revisiting the demand of agricultural insurance: The case of Spain
Garrido, Alberto; Zilberman, David - 2007
We use the actual insurance records of 52,300 farmers and 11 years to estimate two sets of insurance demands. We define measures of insurance's expected returns, variance and third moment, based on observed insurance data, and infer the expected returns for those farmers that have never had an...
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Economics of fall tillage for early and conventional soybean plantings in the midsouthern USA.
Heatherly, L.G.; Spurlock, S.R. - 2001
Conventional soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] production in the midsouthern USA has involved planting Maturity Group (MG) V and later cultivars in May and later months in a seedbed that has been shallow-tilled in the fall or spring just before planting. Moisture deficits that frequently occur...
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