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Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Multi-Unit, Sequential, Oral, Ascending-Price Auctions With Asymmetric Bidders
Paarsch, Harry J.; Brendstrup, Bjarne - 2004
Within the independent private-values paradigm, we derive the data-generating process of the winning bid for the last unit sold at multi-unit sequential English auctions when bidder valuations are draws from different distributions; i.e., in the presence of asymmetries. When the identity of the...
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Equilibrium in the Two Player, k-Double Auction with Affiliate Private Values
Kadan, Ohad - 2004
We prove the existence of an increasing equilibrium, and study the comparative statics of correlation in the k-double auction with affiliated private values. This is supposedly the simplest bilateral trading mechanism that allows for dependence in valuations between buyers and sellers. In the...
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The rate of convergence to perfect competition of matching and bargaining mechanisms
Shneyerov, Artyom; Wong, Adam Chi Leung - 2008
We study the steady state of a market with incoming cohorts of buyers and sellers who are matched pairwise and bargain under private information. We first consider generalized random-proposer take-it-or-leave-it offer games (GRP TIOLI games). This class of games includes a simple random-proposer...
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Strategies and challenges of internationalisation in BRIC-countries: Empirical results from the German agribusiness
Heyder, Matthias; Theuvsen, Ludwig - 2011
The objective of this paper is to identify the strategies and instruments that agribusiness companies currently use to … agribusiness firms. The majority of respondents expect that the importance of the markets in the BRIC countries will increase … agribusiness companies are facing in the context of handling international markets, especially in BRIC countries. …
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Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector
Saenger, Christoph; Qaim, Matin; Torero, Maximo; … - 2012
In emerging markets for high-value food products in developing countries, processing companies search for efficient ways to source raw material of consistent quality. One widely embraced approach is contract farming. But relatively little is known about the appropriate design of contracts,...
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Impact of Third-Party Enforcement of Contracts in Agricultural Markets – A Field Experiment in Vietnam
Saenger, Christoph; Torero, Maximo; Qaim, Matin - 2013
We study the effect of alleviating information asymmetry regarding product quality that is widespread in developing-country agricultural markets. Opportunistic buyers may underreport quality levels back to farmers to reduce the price they have to pay. In response, farmers may curb investment,...
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Oil palm production and cooperatives in the Philippines
Nozawa, Katsumi - 2011
The promotion of oil palm production as an agribusiness development policy is a major issue in response to the … Agribusiness Venture Arrangement (AVA) mode through the field survey of the cooperatives in the provinces in Mindanao. In …
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Agribusinesses, smallholder tenure security, and plot-level investments: Evidence from rural Tanzania
Sipangule, Kacana - 2017
the share of land held by an agribusiness in a village affects smallholder plot-level tenure security and investments in … agribusiness significantly increases the probability that a plot has tenure security. Moreover, our results reveal that a decrease …
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O mercado de trabalho na fronteira do agronegócio: Quanto a dinâmica no Matopiba difere das regiões mais tradicionais?
Serigati, Felippe; Rodrigues, Raquel Magossi; Possamai, … - 2017
with the evolution of the Brazilian agribusiness labor market as a whole. The paper is part of a broader research project … the one hand, although agribusiness generated an increasingly smaller number of jobs within the sector itself, on the … agribusiness, which, through more capital-intensive and labor-saving technologies, has been able to increase its productivity and …
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Inserção internacional do agronegócio brasileiro
Maranhão, Rebecca Lima Albuquerque; Vieira Filho, … - 2017
The urban population growth in developing countries, the middle class expansion and the increase in per capita income have increased the demand for food. This work aims to identify, from the Constant Market Share (CMS) method, the sources of growth of agricultural exports among the main...
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