The objective of this paper is to present econometric evidence of the effects of economic incentives and institutions on national aggregate private agricultural R&D investments. An econometric model of national aggregate annual private R&D investment is specified and fitted to panel data...

With a sample of nearly 18,611 utility patents, this paper studies the technology mix of 90 of the world's leading food and beverage multinationals (FBMs) over 1969-1994. It explores the statistical association between patenting in food technology and in non-food technological fields. Food...

With a sample of 18,611 utility patents, this paper studies the patent mix of 90 of the world's leading food and beverage multinationals (FBMs) from 1969-1994. It explores the statistical association within companies between patenting in food technology, in agriculture and in ten non-food...

This study primarily aimed to contrast the potential relationships between innovation and market concentration. Thus, the relationship between innovation and the European wood industry market structure was analysed. An empirical model was assessed through panel techniques, wherein the wood...

The main objective of the paper is to examine and discuss the nature of technological relationships across agrifood sectors in order to understand better the pattern of technological changes in the Food and Beverage sector. We propose a new estimator to confirm the existence of linkages between...

This paper analyses the determinant of the sales the seed varieties sold the French corn market. The analysis is based on a model of differentiated product. The results show that the effect of the yield estimated by the extension services is positive and significant.

The main objective of this paper is to explain the effects of income inequality on growth, when the environment is an important social and economic issue. A model is presented in which the effects of fiscal policy on COSUB align=rightSMALL2/SMALL/SUB emissions, employment, income distribution...

This article discusses the relationship between fiscal and monetary policies, considering different cases: government budget constraint and the wealth effect, determining the corresponding multipliers. The value of these multipliers will denote the effectiveness of fiscal policy. The article...

This article explores through structural equation modeling whether the level of a food and beverage multinational's (FBM) technical capacities in food, biotechnology and drugs predicts the level of its technical capacities in chemicals. Patent analysis for 90 large FBMs in North America, Europe,...