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Maispreisverhalten - Maispreistransmission während des Preisbooms an den Terminmärkten
Schmitz, Jochen; von Ledebur, Ernst-Oliver - 2009
price changes of 2008. In this analysis the volatility of the maize futures price at three different commodity futures …
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Measuring the integration of staple food markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: Heterogeneous infrastructure and cross border trade in the East African community
Ihle, Rico; von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan; Zorya, Sergiy - 2011
This analysis employs cointegration methods and semiparametric regression in order to assess the integration of maize … rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices between 2000 and 2008 for Kenya, Tanzanian and Uganda. Distance is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274732
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Farmers' subjective valuation of subsistence crops: the case of traditional maize in Mexico
Arslan, Aslıhan; Taylor, J. Edward - 2008
may bear little relationship with market prices. We econometrically estimate shadow prices of maize using data from a … traditional but not improved maize varieties. They are particularly high in the indigenous areas of southern and southeastern … Mexico, indicating large de facto incentives to maintain traditional maize there. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267076
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Shadow vs. market prices in explaining land allocation: subsistence maize cultivation in rural Mexico
Arslan, Aslıhan - 2008
transaction costs are not binding. I estimate the proportion of land subsistence maize farmers allocate to traditional versus … modern maize varieties using nationally representative rural household data from Mexico the center of diversity of maize. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267077
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Agriculture and trade opportunities for Tanzania: Past volatility and future climate change
Ahmed, Syud Amer; Diffenbaugh, Noah S.; Hertel, Thomas W.; … - 2011
increase its maize exports to other countries. If global maize production is lower than usual due to supply shocks in major … exporting regions, Tanzania may be able to export more maize at higher prices, even if it also experiences below …
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Modeling regional supply responses using farm-level economic data and a biophysical model: A case study on Brazilian land-use change
Balieiro, Samuel - 2023
Estimating farmers' supply responses to changes in framework conditions is important to in-form decision-makers on the expected impacts on production volume as well as the resulting land-use shifts. Existing agricultural supply response models generally require either larger databases with...
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Food and Horticulture Crop Productivity in Indonesia
Ruslan, Kadir - 2021
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Evidenzbasierte Bestimmung des Leistungskatalogs im Gesundheitswesen? Das Beispiel des englischen National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Rothgang, Heinz; Niebuhr, Dea; Wasem, Jürgen; Greß, Stefan - 2004
Das englische National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) wird in der bundesdeutschen Diskussion um die Reform der Institutionen zur Konkretisierung des Leistungskatalogs in der GKV entweder als Vorbild oder als abschreckendes Beispiel genannt. Die Analyse der von NICE angewandten...
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A cost-effectiveness analysis of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prophylaxis in infants in the United Kingdom /
Bentley, Anthony; Filipovic, Ivana; Gooch, Katherine; … - In: Health Economics Review 3 (2013) 18, pp. 1-12
Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common cause of respiratory infection that is highly prevalent in infants. Severe cases of RSV infection require hospitalisation; this is most likely to occur in infant populations at high risk. The study assesses the cost-effectiveness of...
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Work Hours Constraints and Health
Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011
The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...
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