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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442826
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Globalized Forest-Products: Commodification of Matsutake Mushroom in Tibetan Villages Yunnan Province, Southwest China
Jun, He - 2006
reform in China, rural economic structures continue functioning with some influences of local cultural, historical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468317
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An analysis of the risk-return relationship in the primary agriculutral sector in the Western Cape from a commercial bank's perspective
Benade, Jean - 2009
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The research report investigates the risk/return relationship in the primary agricultural sector in theWestern Cape from a commercial bank's perspective. The study investigated the correlationbetween credit risk and return within a randomly selected portfolio of agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442162
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Threshold Effects and Regional Economic Growth - Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2001
We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on the growth of West German regions. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442399
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Growth and Technological Leadership in US Industries: A Spatial Econometric Analysis at the State Level, 1963–-1997
Pede, Valerien O.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; de Groot, … - 2007
For several decades, cross-country analyses have dominated the literature on economic growth. Recently, these analyses have been extended to include sectoral variation as well as spatial variation across sub-national regions. This paper investigates economic growth and potential determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444985
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Analisis Pengaruh Realisasi Pendapatan Dan Belanja Daerah Terhadap Pertumbuhan Ekonomi Daerah (Studi Pada 8 Kabupaten Dan Kota Di Sumatera Utara)
Ompusunggu, Zimroben - 2011
This study aims to analyze and know the effect of the realization of revenue and expenditure areas to local economic growth by using the four independent variables in the research, namely the realization of the region original income, transfer income realization, the realization of other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464684
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Impacts of Telecommunications Infrastructure and Its Spillover Effects on Regional Economic Growth in China
Liu, Yanchun - 2008
regional economic growth in China. Based on data for 29 regions ofChina for the period 1986-2006, a panel data approach is used … in China’s regions during the examined period;2) that for regional economic growth due to capital factors …)conditional convergence has been occurring among China’s regions, providing furtherevidence to the conditional convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009458942
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SMEs, regional economic growth and cycles in Brazil
Antonio-Cravo, Tulio - 2011
This thesis presents an examination of the importance of Small and MediumEnterprises (SMEs) for economic growth and examines how sensitive employment inSMEs is to business cycle fluctuations in Brazil.The thesis uses different empirical techniques to investigate the role of SMEsin the Brazilian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461348