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A Methodological Case Study on the Theory of Demand
Müller, Olaf L. - 2005
My philosophical case study concerns textbook presentations of the theory of demand. Does this theory contain anything … of physics by Oliver Timmer. Applying his ideas to the theory of demand reveals that the statements of this discipline …Dies ist eine methodologische Fallstudie, in der Lehrbuch-Darstellungen der Theorie der Nachfrage durchleuchtet werden …
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Essays in macroeconomics
Trabandt, Mathias - 2007
/oder Subvention von Kapital und Löhnen nicht wichtig für die Wohlfahrsgewinne einer hinreichend vorangekündigten Steuerreform sind. … short-run confiscation and/or subsidy of capital and labor income is not important for the welfare gains of pre …
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Productivity Dispersion, Plant Size, and Market Structure
Bakhtiari, Sasan - 2008
results, a market structure model is introduced that uses demand size and market localization as constraining forces to …
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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search …
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Reinsuring Group Revenue Insurance with Exchange-Provided Revenue Contracts
Babcock, Bruce A.; Hayes, Dermot J.; Griffin, Steven C. - 1999
Building on recent work by Mirand and Glauber (1997), this report shows that it is feasible to use exchange-based contracts as a substitute for the Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA). The contract we analyze here is a Group Revenue Contract, which would allow producers to guarantee against...
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DEMAND FOR RAINFALL-INDEX BASED INSURANCE: A CASE STUDY FROM MOROCCO
McCarthy, Nancy - 2003
In this paper, we derive estimates for willingness to pay for rainfall-index based insurance contracts. Surveys were undertaken in four regions in Morocco, representing different mean and variability of rainfall conditions. Results indicate that respondents in the high variability regions...
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Revisiting the demand of agricultural insurance: The case of Spain
Garrido, Alberto; Zilberman, David - 2007
We use the actual insurance records of 52,300 farmers and 11 years to estimate two sets of insurance demands. We define measures of insurance's expected returns, variance and third moment, based on observed insurance data, and infer the expected returns for those farmers that have never had an...
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The Application and Modification of Delegation - Agent model in Agricultural Insurance
Xue, Hai-Lian; Zhang, Hai-Xia - 2010
The delegation-agent models in agricultural assurance are established both under the circumstances of information symmetry and information asymmetry. Insurers choose effort level —a* according to the first order optimal condition of at the present stage when the information is symmetric. While...
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El nuevo seguro de ingresos de la patata: una evaluacion preliminar
Estavillo, Julio; Aguado, Salomon; Bielza, Maria; … - 2005
En 2003 y 2004, se ofreció por primera vez en España un seguro que protege contra la caída de precios en origen de un producto agrícola. Se trata de un seguro de rentas lanzado con carácter piloto para las producciones de patata de media estación y patata tardía en cinco provincias...
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El seguro de ingresos como instrumento de estabilizacion de las rentas de los agricultores: aplicacion al sector olivarero espanol
Bielza, Maria; Garrido, Alberto; Sumpsi, Jose Maria - 2002
stabilisation policies for Spanish olive oil growers, including yield and revenue insurance schemes. In theory and under certain …
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