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A Multi-Disciplinary Approach For Determining Adoption Of Agricultural Price Risk Management Strategies

Jackson, Elizabeth; Quaddus, Mohammed; Islam, Nazrul; … - 2007

Australian wool producers have been slow to adopt price risk management strategies to stabilise the income from their … wool sales. The highly volatile auction system accounts for 85% of raw wool sales while the remainder is sold by forward … adoption of price risk management strategies (specifically futures and forward contracts) for selling raw wool. Consideration …

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Assessing the Impact of International Natural Resource Management Research: The Case of Zero Tillage in Indias Rice-Wheat Systems

Laxmi, Vijay; Erenstein, Olaf - 2006

A conservative ex-ante assessment of supply-shift gains alone (excluding social and environmental gains), shows that the investment in zero tillage (ZT) R&D by the Rice-Wheat Consortium and CIMMYT was highly beneficial with a benefit-cost ratio of 39, a net present value of US$ 94 million and an...

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Potential Impacts of Bt Eggplant on Economic Surplus and Farmers Health in India

Krishna, Vijesh V.; Qaim, Matin - 2007

In this article, the potential impacts of Bt eggplant technology in Indian agriculture are analyzed. Several proprietary Bt hybrids are likely to be commercialized in the near future. Based on field trial data, it is shown that the technology can significantly reduce insecticide applications and...

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Seafood Import Demand in the Caribbean Region

Nguyen, Giap V.; Jolly, Curtis M. - 2010

Cointegration analysis and an Error Correction Model are used to estimate aggregate seafood import demand functions for selected Caribbean countries. The results show that seafood import demand is price elastic. Exchange rate has a negative effect on seafood import quantity. Income and tourist...

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Bankruptcy and Transaction Costs in General Financial Models

Hoelle, Matthew - 2010

General financial models have become workhorse models in the fields of macroeconomics and finance. These models have been developed and extensively studied by general equilibrium theorists. What makes them so applicable for macroeconomics and finance is the well accepted fact that models with a...

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Financial Leverage and the Leverage Effect - A Market and Firm Analysis

Aydemir, A. Cevdet; Gallmeyer, Michael; Hollifield, Burton - 2007

We quantify the effect of financial leverage on stock return volatility in a dynamic general equilibrium economy with debt and equity claims. The effect of financial leverage is studied both at a market and a firm level where the firm is exposed to both idiosyncratic and market risk. In a...

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Residential Segregation in General Equilibrium

Bayer, Patrick; McMillan, Robert; Rueben, Kim - 2004

This paper studies the causes and consequences of racial segregation using a new general equilibrium model that treats neighborhood compositions as endogenous. The model is estimated using unusually detailed restricted Census microdata covering the entire San Francisco Bay Area, and in...

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Partial versus General Equilibrium Calorie and Revenue Effects of a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax

Dharmasena, Senarath; Davis, George C.; Capps, Oral - 2011

The current obesity crisis in the United States is generating numerous alternative policy options for combating the problem. One alternative that has been widely proposed is an excise or sales tax on sugar-sweetened non-alcoholic beverages. This literature started out within a very simple...

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Policy Analysis in a Second-Best World

Parry, Ian W.H.; Oates, Wallace E. - 1998

This paper first describes the new literature in environmental economics on the socalled "double dividend" and then explores its implications for a broad range of economic issues. The basic finding in this literature is that in a second-best, general equilibrium setting, environmental measures...

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Revenue Recycling and the Welfare Effects of Road Pricing

Parry, Ian W.H.; Bento, Antonio M. - 1999

This paper explores the interactions between taxes on work-related traffic congestion and pre-existing distortionary taxes in the labor market. A congestion tax raises the overall costs of commuting to work and discourages labor force participation at the margin, when revenues are returned in...

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