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The impact of domestic and international commodity price volatility on agricultural income instability: Ghana, Vietnam and Peru
Rapsomanikis, George; Sarris, Alexander - 2006
The extent to which commodity price volatility affects the income of producing households and their vulnerability to poverty and food insecurity depends on household diversification patterns and the degree of their exposure to markets. This article focuses on estimating agricultural income...
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On the use of agricultural system models for exploring technological innovations across scales in Africa: A critical review
Rötter, Reimund P.; Sehomi, Fanou L.; Höhn, Jukka G.; … - 2016
. To this end, we searched the SCOPUS database for journal articles published between 1996 and 2015. We considered …
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Bank stress testing: A stochastic simulation framework to assess banks' financial fragility
Montesi, Giuseppe; Papiro, Giovanni - In: Risks 6 (2018) 3, pp. 1-54
We present a stochastic simulation forecasting model for stress testing that is aimed at assessing banks' capital adequacy, financial fragility, and probability of default. The paper provides a theoretical presentation of the methodology and the essential features of the forecasting model on...
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Capital Taxation and Investment: Matching 100 Years of Wealth Inequality Dynamics
Boehl, Gregor; Fischer, Thomas - 2017
Using a parsimonious, analytically tractable dynamic model, we are able to explain up to 100 years of the available data on the dynamics of top-wealth shares for several countries. We build a micro-founded model of heterogeneous agents in which - in addition to stochastic returns on investment -...
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Simulating Forward-Looking Models
Kolsrud, Dag - 2001
The solutions of a macroeconometricmodel with expectations of future-dated variables has to be approximated by numerical simulations. A brief review of deterministic and stochastic dynamic simulations of a backward-looking model is followed by a conceptual presentation of methods for dynamic...
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Исследование поведенческих факторов сельхозпроизводителей по вовлечению в оборот заброшенных сельскохозяйственных земель: Пример Республики Бурятия...
Prishchepov, Alexander; Ponkina, Elena; Sun, Zhanli; … - In: Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika = Spatial Economics 17 (2021) 3, pp. 59-102
Несмотря на ожидаемую нехватку пригодных для расширения сельскохозяйственного производства земель в мире, процессы забрасывания сельскохозяйственных земель...
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Investment under Risk with Discrete and Continuous Assets
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Vigh, Melinda - 2009
variables. This class contains a variety of models that are useful for modeling intertemporal household decisions under risk …
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Surrogate modelling of a detailed farm‐level model using deep learning
Shang, Linmei; Wang, Jifeng; Schäfer, David; Heckelei, … - In: Journal of Agricultural Economics 75 (2024) 1, pp. 235-260
Technological change co‐determines agri‐environmental performance and farm structural transformation. Meaningful impact assessment of related policies can be derived from farm‐level models that are rich in technology details and environmental indicators, integrated with agent‐based...
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Micro-credit, risk coping and the incidence of rural-to-urban migration
Ahsan, Quamrul - 2005
The focus of this paper is on the rural poor of south Asia and their struggle to cope with the seasonal risk of … credit may affect the more traditional/time honoured means of risk coping, such as seasonal migration. Given that credit, i …-financed activity, a joint adoption of both activities creates opportunities for diversification of risk in the family incomes portfolio …
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Ex-ante regulation and ex-post liability under uncertainty and irreversibility: governing the coexistence of GM crops
Beckmann, Volker; Soregaroli, Claudio; Wesseler, Justus - 2009
Ex-ante regulations and ex-post liabilities for using a new technology will induce additional costs for adopters. The standard model is advanced by including irreversibility and uncertainty and taking into account transaction costs of negotiating possible cost reductions. The case analysed is...
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