Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 249
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008599556
Cover Image
Commodity Price Pass-Through in Differentiated Retail Food Markets
Richards, Timothy J.; Allender, William J.; Pofahl, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Prices for nearly all basic commodity rose at unprecedented rates throughout early 2008, only to fall nearly as fast as financial markets and global economies began to collapse. Rising food prices in 2008 led to concerns that commodity price spikes would lead to more general food inflation, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020698
Cover Image
Too Connected to Fail: The Effect of Alliance Network Structure on Farm Survival
Kirwan, Barrett E.; Martens, Andrea - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
Exogenous, unobserved factors often confound the effects of alliance networks. More capable farmers might be less likely to exit and more likely to have a large number of alliances. In this case the negative correlation between alliance network size and exit likelihood is due to the unobserved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020910
Cover Image
Optimal Farm Size in Russian Agriculture
Svetlov, Nikolai M.; Hockmann, Heinrich - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
A set of dynamic DEA models is applied to investigate the determinants of farm size of Moscow oblast corporate farms in the period 1996-2004. New institutional economics is found to be more relevant to explaining farm sizes and their changes than the neo-classical framework. The results prove...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913448
Cover Image
National, Regional, and State-Level Estimates of Returns to Scale in the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
Baral, Ranju; Davis, George C.; You, Wen - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 45 (2013) 02
The effectiveness of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program in achieving its goals at the national, regional, and state level is unknown. Using US Department of Agriculture (USDA) data from all states and territories for the years 2000–2006, the impact of program and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142828
Cover Image
The Role of Network Administrative Organizations in the Development of Social Capital in Inter-Organizational Food Networks
Lefebvre, Virginie M.; Molnar, Adrienn; Gellynck, Xavier - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 03 (2012) 3
This paper is concerned with the role of network administrative organizations (NAOs) in the development of social capital in inter-organizational networks aiming at supporting their members to innovate in the food sector through interacting with one another. A multi-case study approach is used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878851
Cover Image
A Study of Small Business Owners’ Personal Characteristics and the Use of Marketing Information in the Food and Drink Industry: A Resource-Based Perspective
Cacciolatti, Luca; Wan, Tingting - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 03 (2012) 2
Market orientation (MO) – which is the propensity of a firm to collect and utilise information from the market – is an important leverage of competitive advantage. This paper helps to better understand why some owner-managers engage with market intelligence why others simply do not. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878852
Cover Image
Building Viable and Sustainable Regional Netchains: Case Studies of Regional Pork Netchains in Spain, Germany, and The Netherlands
Nijhoff-Savvaki, Rannia; Trienekens, Jacques H.; Omta, … - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 03 (2012) 1
The present paper aims to give insight into critical issues contributing to the successful building of viable and sustainable regional netchains, focussing on chain governance mechanisms (coordination mechanisms, quality management systems, information systems) and social embedding. It uses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878853
Cover Image
Coordinating Clusters: A Cross Sectoral Study of Cluster Organization Functions in The Netherlands
Garbade, Philipp J.P.; Fortuin, Frances T.J.M.; Omta, S.W.F. - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 03 (2012) 3
The present paper aims at answering the question how cluster organization functions are implemented in a high-tech, a medium to high-tech and a low to medium-tech cluster. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews from three clusters in the Netherlands, an agri-food cluster (as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878854
Cover Image
Organizational Innovation and Institutional Change: The Case of Valio in Finland
Lamprinakis, Lampros - In: International Journal on Food System Dynamics 03 (2012) 2
Firms in the agri-food industry are embedded in a system of institutions, regulations and policies that shape their economic environment and affect their conduct and performance. Changes in this system can propose new challenges for the firms that need to adequately and efficiently change and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878855