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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding

Sauer, Johannes - 2011

. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …

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Management betrieblicher Risiken bei produzierenden Unternehmen

König, Roland - 2008

the complete risk management process. An Example from a mechanical engineering company is used for the final validation of …

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Produktion unter Risiko : ein agentenbasiertes, sektorales Partialmodell zur Anwendung in der Nachhaltigkeitsforschung

Meißner, Frank - 2007

-Walrasian disequilibrium approach and describe optimizing agents. These agents use chance constraints which depict a Cash Flow at Risk approach …

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Internet Exchanges for Used Goods: An Empirical Analysis of TradePatterns and Adverse Selection

Ghose, Anindya - 2008

The past few years have witnessed the increasing ubiquity ofuser-generated content on seller reputation and product condition inInternet based used-good markets. Recent theoretical models of tradingand sorting in used-good markets provide testable predictions to use toexamine the presence of...

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Rice Miller Cluster in Ghana and Its Effects on Efficiency and Quality Improvement

Sakurai, Takeshi; Furuya, Jun; Futakuchi, Koichi - 2006

This paper investigates the roles of industrial cluster on the efficiency of rice milling and the improvement of milled rice quality. The data were obtained in Kumasi area, central Ghana because the enhancement of domestic rice production is a urgent policy issue in this country, but little...

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Explaining Quality Differences at the Procurement Stage in the Polish Milk Sector

Pieniadz, Agata; Hockmann, Heinrich - 2006

The challenge of implementing EU quality and safety standards for food production and trading is one of the driving forces behind the restructuring of the agrofood chains in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). The progress made in the compliance process not only varies amongst sectors...

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Reputations, Market Structure, and the Choice of Quality Assurance Systems in the Food Industry

Carriquiry, Miguel A.; Babcock, Bruce A. - 2005

A repeated-purchases model is developed to explore the fundamental economic factors that lie behind the choice of different quality assurance systems and their associated degrees of stringency by firms. Differences in the quality discoverability of a sought-after attribute, market structure,...

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REPUTATION, QUALITY OBSERVABILITY, AND THE CHOICE OF QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEMS

Carriquiry, Miguel A.; Babcock, Bruce A. - 2004

Participants in a supply chain of agricultural value-added products face significant challenges. Many of the costly distinctive traits desired by consumers are difficult (if not impossible) to observe even after consumption. A complicating factor, addressed here, is that in some circumstances...

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International joint venture (IJV) marketing performance: alternative approaches to performance measurement

Julian, Craig C - 2005

This paper assesses International Joint Venture (IJV) marketing performance in the Republic of Thailand, as opposed to general business performance. Furthermore, the paper develops an objective measure to assess IJV marketing performance and compares two different types of measures for measuring...

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A Product-Quality View of The Linder Hypothesis

Hallak, Juan Carlos - 2006

The Linder hypothesis states that countries of similar income per capita should trade more intensely with one another. This hypothesis has attracted substantial research over decades, but the empirical evidence has failed to provide consistent support for it. This paper shows that the reason for...

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