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How does Market Access affect Smallholder Behavior? The Case of Tobacco Marketing in Malawi

Zant, Wouter - 2012

experimental design of the introduction of an additional tobacco auction floor in Malawi in order to investigate the impact of a … of tobacco, the major cash crop in Malawi. Estimations are based on annual data by Extension Planning Area, 198 in total …, fully covering Malawi, for 2003-04 to 2009-10. The estimation results support a statistically significant positive impact of …

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A Policy Perspective on Tobacco Farming and Public Health in Indonesia

Audrine, Pingkan - 2020

Indonesia's cigarette industry is a significant contributor to employment and tax revenue collection. However, it is also responsible for enormous public health and economic costs, as smoking related health expenditures in Indonesia amount to approximately USD 1.2 billion per year and another...

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Solidarität: Eine Prüfung der Leistungsfähigkeit dieses Begriffes

Priddat, Birger P. - 2016

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Voting for voters: A model of electoral evolution

Barberà, Salvador; Maschler, Michael B.; Shalev, Jonathan - 1998

We model the decision problems faced by the members of societies whose new members are determined by vote. We adopt a number of simplifying assumptions: the founders and the candidates are fixed; the society operates for a fixed number of periods and holds elections at the beginning of each period;...

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A "tragedy of the clubs": Excess entry in exclusive coalitions

Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 1999

We model club formation as a non-cooperative game of coalition formation and surplus division. We show how social norms and individual rationality sustain a particular form of collective inefficiency, namely excessive entry in the joint production and exploitation of an excludable good. We term...

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Conspicuous consumption, social status and clubs

Jaramillo, Fernando; Kempf, Hubert; Moizeau, Fabien - 2000

The paper develops a signalling theory of conspicuous consumption where the drive toward spending on an otherwise unuseful good comes from the desire to enter clubs and benefit from the provision of club good financed by members of a club and from a social status effect. Individual incomes are...

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Do the Poor Benefit from Corporate Social Responsibility? A Theory-Based Impact Evaluation of Six Community-Based Water Projects in Sri Lanka

Löwenstein, Wilhelm; Shakya, Martina; Hansen, Marc; … - 2015

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can work as an effective means towards minimising business risk and maintaining amicable relationships with diverse groups of stakeholders. While many studies have examined the impacts of CSR on firm value and customer perceptions, little is known about the...

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Ein Europa der zwei Geschwindigkeiten: Wie (in)stabil wäre eine solche Lösung?

Sell, Friedrich L. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 76 (1996) 6, pp. 317-320

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Club Theory and Household Formation

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2009

The relationship between our general equilibrium model with multi- member households and club models with multiple private goods is investigated. The main distinction in the definitions consists of the equilibrium concepts. As a rule, competitive equilibria among house- holds where no group of...

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The Role of Community in Migration Dynamics

Vergalli, Sergio - 2006

In this paper, we present a theoretical model that, implementing the pioneering work of Burda (1995), based on the Real Option Theory, investigates the roots of the migration dynamics. In the model the decision to migrate of each individual depends not only on the wage differential, but also on...

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