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This articlefocuses on the relative levels of farm sector productivity forthe United States and nine European countries for the period1973 to 1993. At the beginning of the period, Belgium had thehighest level of productivity relative to the United States at1.689. Ireland had the lowest relative...
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In this paper, we explore empirically whether the USDA Forest Service's litigation success rate in each Forest Service region helps explain the persistent regional effects noted by Laband et al. (Laband, D.N., González-Cabán, A., and Hussain, A. (2006). “Factors That Influence...
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presence-absence sampling plan with a fixed precision level was developed and can be used to provide a quick estimation of D …
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The purpose of this study was to compare the relative accuracy of different thermal-germination models in predicting germination-time under constant-temperature conditions. Of specific interest was the assessment of shape assumptions associated with the cardinal-temperature...
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The extreme cost of fighting wildland fires has brought fire suppression expenditures to the forefront of budgetary and policy debate in the United States. Inasmuch as large fires are responsible for the bulk of fire suppression expenditures, understanding fire characteristics that influence...
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Periodic shortfalls of organic food have been commonplace in the USA. Shortages, created when demand grows faster than supply, have been exacerbated by relatively slow growth of certified organic farmland (in comparison to growth in retail sales) over the past decade. Organic intermediaries,...
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This paper studies the impact of European bank mergers and acquisitions on changes in key safety and soundness measures of both acquirers and targets. We find that capitalization, profitability and liquidity show signs of statistically and economically signifi cant mean reversion for acquirers....
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En este estudio investigamos los determinantes de las emisiones denominadas en dólares de deuda a largo plazo por parte de la banca europea. Para ello empleamos una base de datos que permite explorar los factores que, según la literatura, explican las emisiones en moneda extranjera. Incluimos...
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Este documento es uno de los primeros en investigar los determinantes en la emisión de bonos por parte de las entidades bancarias europeas. Utilizamos una base de datos única de en torno a 50.000 bonos emitidos por 63 bancos de 14 países europeos para comprobar explícitamente una serie de...
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creciente proporción de madres inmigrantes en Europa es menos conocido. Este artículo se pregunta cómo afecta la carga del … entre las madres inmigrantes no comunitarias y las nativas en el norte y el sur de Europa es de 35 y 17 puntos porcentuales …
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