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Keep It Down: An Experimental Test of the Truncated k-Double Auction
Doyon, Maurice; Rondeau, Daniel; Mbala, Richard - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 39 (2010) 2
dramatically improve the flow of information among market participants and increase efficiency. On the other hand, prevailing … behavior and decrease equilibrium prices, and assess how it impacts efficiency. The results show that the T-kDA significantly … lowers the equilibrium price and results in moderate efficiency losses. Most importantly, the T-kDA effectively counters the …
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EFICIÊNCIA PRODUTIVA DE UNIDADES AGROPECUÃRIAS: UMA APLICAÇÃO DO MÉTODO NÃO-PARAMÉTRICO ANÃLISE ENVOLTÓRIA DE DADOS (DEA)
Steffanello, Marines; Macedo, Marcelo Alvaro da Silva; … - In: Organizacoes Rurais e Agroindustriais/Rural and … 11 (2009) 1
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Development of food industry in Poland in the years 1998-2007
Gradziuk, Katarzyna - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 06 (2009) 21
The article presents processes of development in the Polish food industry which took place in the years 1998-2007. The aim of the paper is to investigate the impact of investments in food industry on structural transformations in two periods: that of pre-accession and the other of integration...
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Application of fuzzy inference system to increase efficiency of management decision-making in agricultural enterprises
Balanovskаya, Tetiana Ivanovna; Boretska, Zoreslava … - In: Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa … 14 (2014) 29
Application of fuzzy inference system to increase efficiency of management decision- making in agricultural enterprises …
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INFLUENCE OF THE INTEGRATION OF AGROHOLDINGS WITH RUSSIAN FARMS ON TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY AND ITS SUBCOMPONENTS
Hahlbrock, Konstantin; Hockmann, Heinrich - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2011
The impact of group affiliation to agroholdings on enterprise performance in terms of productivity and efficiency is … efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Russia. The underlying research question of this paper is therefore whether farms that … productivity (TFP) and technical efficiency scores for the two categories of independent farms and members of agroholdings. In this …
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How the East Was Won: Supply Chain Restructuring in the Eastern European Beer Market
Van Herck, Kristine; Swinnen, Johan F.M.; Deconinck, Koen - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 61 (2012) 4
Like all markets in the former communist countries, the Eastern European beer market has been strongly affected by the economic reforms in the beginning of the 1990s. In the first years after reforms, there was a substantial decline in the production of barley, malt and beer. However, the...
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Market Power and/or Efficiency: An Application to U.S. Food Processing
Lopez, Rigoberto A.; Azzam, Azzeddine M.; Liron-Espana, … - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2001
This article separates oligopoly-power and cost-efficiency effects of changes in industrial concentration and assesses … induces cost efficiency in one-third of the industries, oligopoly-power effects either dominate cost efficiency or reinforce …
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Structural Change in the Meat and Poultry Industry and the Pathogen Reduction Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Rule
Ollinger, Michael - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008
This paper uses plant-level micro-data covering the 1987-2002 and a translog cost function to estimate long-run costs in the meat and poultry industry in order to evaluate the impact of the Pathogen Reduction Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Rule on cattle, hog and chicken slaughter and...
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Patterns of competition and strategic groups in the special cheese industry in Brazil
Rezende, Daniel Carvalho de; Castro, Cleber Carvalho de - In: Organizacoes Rurais e Agroindustriais/Rural and … 11 (2009) 1
The aim of this study is to identify the competition pattern in the Brazilian special cheese industry, and the strategic groups of this market. Based mainly on the Industrial Organization Theory, a qualitative study was conducted, supported by primary and secondary data. The primary data were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543641
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Market Power and/or Efficiency: An Application to U.S. Food Processing
Lopez, Rigoberto A.; Azzam, Azzeddine M.; Liron-Espana, … - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2001
This article separates oligopoly-power and cost-efficiency effects of changes in industrial concentration and assesses … induces cost efficiency in one-third of the industries, oligopoly-power effects either dominate cost efficiency or reinforce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005454153