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This study is an analysis of Thailand's rice export sector with reference to three major issues: government trade policy, trade performance, and the structure of trade preferences. In analyzing the rice trade policy, particularly the rice premium, both theoretical and empirical analyses were...
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reduction in agricultural regions. Based on empirical data, the paper presents the assessment of the "diversification effects … market. However, diversification of the employment structure of the agricultural regions is a factor reducing the risk of … rural unemployment. In rural regions the development of non-agricultural employment produces positive effects on the …
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biophysical challenges for malaria control. A necessary next step is the careful, detailed, and timely integration of economics …
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Both options and better information about prices have been proposed to increase the attractiveness of livestock hedging strategies. This study examines the value of incorporating both into hedging strategies for live hogs. A two-period simulation model in which a hog producer chooses a hedging...
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Exchanges of either long term rights (property right transfer) or spot rights (rights rental) to water may result in third party effects that place practical limits on the geographic scope of a water market. The result will be a market with few eligible participants. A "thin" market suffers from...
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Food firms can improve their profits by focusing on one or a few specialized activities because of efficiency gains and/or market power benefits. This study documents that profits increase with increasing concentration for firms in food industries whose top-4-concentration ratio is greater than 38%.
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As a result of the unique segmentation of the international rice market, and the dominance of US and Thailand within certain market segments, a model of monopolistic price discrimination is developed in this study to examine export price adjustment in response to exchange rate fluctuations. The...
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Cointegration analysis is used to study the spot and futures price relationships for two storable commodities, corn and soybeans, and a nonstorable commodity, live hogs, over a 13-year period, 1980 to 1992. For corn and soybeans, cointegration is found in most pre-harvest contracts (July), and...
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A micro-analytic approach based on an integration of elements from Agency and Transactions-cost theories, was followed to develop a theoretical framework for characterizing vertical coordination decisions at the firm level. Vertical coordination modes were defined as all possible arrangements...
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food and export agriculture sectors allows a distinction between tradeable and nontradeable agricultural commodities and an … to examine how micro-level markets in the agricultural sector respond to macro-level changes such as exchange rate and … agricultural households and urban rich at the expense of rural non-farm and urban poor households. Under the package of combined …
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