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The value of powdery mildew resistance in grapes: Evidence from California

Fuller, Kate B.; Alston, Julian Mark; Sambucci, Olena S. - In: Wine Economics and Policy 3 (2014) 2, pp. 90-107

Powdery mildew (PM) is a fungal disease that damages many crops, including grapes. In California, wine, raisin, and table grapes contributed over $ 3.9 billion to the value of farm production in 2011. Grape varieties with resistance to powdery mildew are currently being developed, using either...

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Trade integration, global value chains, and capital accumulation

Sposi, Michael; Yi, Kei-Mu; Zhang, Jing - 2020

Motivated by increasing trade and fragmentation of production across countries since World War II, we build a dynamic two-country model featuring sequential, multistage production and capital accumulation. As trade costs decline over time, globalvalue-chain (GVC) trade expands across countries,...

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"This Monstrous Scheme": Die Idee eines nationalen Wollregisters im Großbritannien des 18. Jahrhunderts und die Grenzen des Merkantilismus

Ziegler, Hannes - In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 111 (2024) 1, pp. 6-34

The project of a national register of wool was the fever dream of mercantilism in Great Britain during the eighteenth … administrative teeth to the ban on the exportation of English raw wool that had existed since 1660. But despite several concerted … with the legislative and administrative practice of raw wool regulation in eighteenth century Britain. In doing so, it also …

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Bread and steel: Harcourt on the economic surplus, employment and distribution in two-sector economies

Boianovsky, Mauro - 2022

The present paper is set out to examine the place of Geoff Harcourt's 1965 "Two-sector model of the distribution of income and the level of employment in the short run" in his research agenda, as well as its original historical context and fate. That pioneer model articulated how the production...

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Assessment of Prospective Impact of Fruits and Vegetables Research at the Industry Level in the Philippines: the Case of the ACIAR-PCAARRD Horticulture Project

Briones, Roehlano M.; Galang, Ivory Myka R. - 2012

The fruits and vegetables subsector shows great dynamism despite lack of government support compared to other subsectors within agriculture. To further realize the potential of the fruits and vegetables sector, one promising instrument is investment in research and development (R&D). The...

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Testing the Modigliani-Miller theorem directly in the lab: a general equilibrium approach

Mahagaonkar, Prashanth; Qiu, Jianying - 2008

In this paper, we experimentally test the Modigliani-Miller theorem. Applying a general equilibrium approach and not allowing for arbitrage among firms with different capital structure, we are able to address a question fundamental to the valuation of firms: does capital structure affect the...

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Subsidizing extra jobs: promoting employment by taming the unions

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2007

We study the subsidization of extra jobs in a general equilibrium framework. While the previous literature focuses on symmetric marginal employment subsidies where firms are rewarded when they increase employment but punished when they reduce their workforce, we consider an asymmetric scheme...

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Optimal redistributive tax and education policies in general equilibrium

Jacobs, Bas - 2007

Should a redistributive government optimally subsidize education to provoke a reduction in the skill premium through general equilibrium effects on wages? To answer this question, this paper studies optimal linear and non-linear redistributive income taxes and education subsidies in two-type...

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Demographic change and regional labour markets: the case of Eastern Germany

Henschel, Beate; Pohl, Carsten; Thum, Marcel - 2008

Demographic change will be one of the most challenging issues for industrialized economies in the decades to come. In this paper, we focus on the impact of demographic change on labour markets. By setting up a stylized model of a regional labour market, we are able to analyze the interaction of...

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Trade retaliation in a monetary-trade model

Whalley, John; Yu, Jun; Zhang, Shunming - 2009

We explore how outcomes of trade policy retaliation (Nash tariff games) are affected when trade simultaneously takes places geographically across countries and through time via financial intermediation. In such models deficits and surpluses in goods trade are endogenously determined, and...

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