Foreign animal disease can cause serious damage to the United States (US) agriculturalsector and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), in particular, poses a serious threat. FMDcauses death and reduced fecundity in infected animals, as well as significant economicconsequences. FMD damages can likely be...

The basic hypothesis of this study is that producers do not realize, individually,the importance of adopting preventive measures, even aware of the economic risks for themand for the local economy, because outbreaks of some diseases are not frequent. Moreover,the presence of externalities makes...

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In this study we use Taiwan as a case study to provide an economy-wide analysis of impacts on Taiwan of WTO tariff reduction schemes with different combinations of thresholds and reduction rates. The model we utilized in this study is Taiwan General Equilibrium Model with a WTO module...

Low international wheat prices, caused by tariffs and subsidies in developed countries, have been blamed for causing financial difficulty to South African farmers. While indignation at unfair trade practices may be valid, it does not necessarily follow that protection of the local industry is...

Researchers using revealed preference data have mostly relied on the Mixed Logit (ML) framework to model unobserved heterogeneity. In this paper, we suggest an extension of this model where we integrate direct measures of taste and revealed preferences, under a unified econometric setting, to...

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Kazakhstan?s agricultural sector plays an important role in the country'seconomy. Not only does it function as an economic output producer, it alsoserves as a social buffer in times of transition to a market economy. Therestructuring process had a strong impact on the economic performance...

The paper examines profitability and market performance of small-scale fish traders selected randomly from a cross-section of nine fish markets in four districts in Central Uganda. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire which was designed to solicit information on traders?...

Since its introduction to a wondering public in 1972, the Cox proportional hazards regression model has become an overwhelmingly popular tool in the analysis of censored survival data. However, some features of the Cox model may cause problems for the analyst or an interpreter of the data. They...