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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442826
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PEÑOLES EN LA AGROINDUSTRIA EMPRESA ORGULLOSAMENTE MEXICANA
Molina, Julio C.; Araiza, Salvador E. - 2011
Penoles began operations in 1887 as a mining company. It currently controls more than 20active companies involved in exploration, mining, foundation and refining of precious metalsand industrial and developing inorganic chemical product which integrates differentcompanies involved in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443753
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Análise do desempenho competitivo das agroindústrias de polpa de frutas do estado do Pará
Santana, Antonio Cordeiro de - 2004
The objective of this paper was to determine and analyze the main competitiveperformance indicators of the pulp producing agro-industries of the local tropical fruits’agricluster of the Metropolitan Region of Belém and Northeast of Pará. The competitiveperformance was evaluated by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445883
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Financing the Celtic Tigress: Venturing Financing and Informal Investment in Ireland
O'Gorman, Colm; Terjesen, Siri A. - 2006
This study explores gender differences in entrepreneurship and informal investment in Ireland, a country with one of … the lowest rates of female entrepreneurship in the developed world. Females in Ireland are less likely than males to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437817
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Could the Irish Miracle Be Repeated in Hungary?
Acs, Zoltan J.; O'Gorman, Colm; Szerb, Laszlo; … - 2007
significant differences in entrepreneurial activity between Ireland and Hungary in both the type of people starting businesses and … Ireland and Hungary (Reynolds, et al 2005). We expect that countries will benefit from FDI spillovers when there is a strong … between Ireland and Hungary in terms of (i) levels of opportunity-based entrepreneurial activity, (ii) the entrepreneurial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438045
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Foreign Direst Investment and Indigenous Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Wales and Ireland
Terjesen, Siri A.; Acs, Zoltan - 2007
entrepreneurial activity varies by human capital and cultural context in Ireland and Wales. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438129
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The Impact of Experience and Consumer Perceptions on Perceived Risk Reduction Behavior - The Case of Beef
McCarthy, Mary - 2005
This research examines perceived risk at the facet level (Psychological, Social, Performance, Safety, Health and Financial) and assesses the influence of consumer experience and perception of self (perceived ability, interest in product and interest in cooking), product (perceived product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443905
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Fertility in South Dublin a Century Ago: A First Look
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Moehling, Carolyn M.; Grada, Cormac O - 2001
Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444183