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Plowing Through the Data
Mundlak, Yair - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 3 (2011) 1, pp. 1-19
In this paper I report on work that has aimed at measuring and understanding the sources of productivity differences …
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Globalisation and convergence of the agro-food systems of the industrial economies
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Fabiani, Guido - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2007) 2
In this paper empirical analysis is made of the long-term evolution of the world agro-food systems. Subsequent to comparative-historical analysis of the long-term trajectories, the hypothesis of “club convergence” in the structural features of the advanced economies’ agricultural systems...
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Heterogeneous technology and panel data: The case of the agricultural production function
Mundlak, Yair; Butzer, Rita; Larson, Donald F. - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 1, pp. 139-149
relationships between particular resources and productivity. The paper analyzes the implications of this process on the estimation … land and reducing those of fertilizer and labor. The evaluation of the marginal value productivity accounts for the flow of …
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Wholesale Milk Markets: A Study of Market Integration in Indian Markets
Jha, A.K.; Singh, K.M.; Singh, R.K.P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Market integration is an important determinant of responsiveness and behavior of the markets needed to formulate price policies. Indian wholesale milk markets are correlated with varying degrees of integration. Paper uses monthly wholesale prices of milk for the period from April 1997 to...
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Estimating the impact of climate change on agricultural production: accounting for technology heterogeneity across countries
Exenberger, Andreas; Pondorfer, Andreas; Wolters, Maik - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
We estimate the impact of climate change on agricultural production in a panel of 127 countries from 1961 to 2002. In contrast to the existing literature we account for cross-sectional dependence and technology heterogeneity. We find no significant impact of climate change on agricultural...
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Estimating the impact of climate change on agricultural production: accounting for technology heterogeneity across countries
Exenberger, Andreas; Pondorfer, Andreas; Wolters, Maik H. - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014
We estimate the impact of climate change on agricultural production in a panel of 127 countries from 1961 to 2002. In contrast to the existing literature we account for cross-sectional dependence and technology heterogeneity. We find no significant impact of climate change on agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839579
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Taxing Means of Agricultural Production in Germany: A Relatively High Tax Burden Compared to Other Important EU Competitors
Parsche, Rüdiger; Radulescu, Doina Maria - In: CESifo DICE Report 2 (2004) 2, pp. 48-54
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Evaluation of The Necessary of Agriculture Public Expenditure for Poverty Reduction and Food Security in Benin
Labintan, Adeniyi Constant - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Benin is predominantly an agricultural country which accounted for 39% of GDP with 70% economically active population in the agricultural sector, that year. Small, independent farmers produce 90% of agricultural output, but only about 17% of the total area is cultivated, much of it in the form...
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On why and how agriculture declines
Esposti, Roberto - In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 31 (2014) C, pp. 73-88
This article proposes an empirical model to investigate the long-run decline of the agricultural sector during economic growth. Within a two-sector representation of open regional economies, agricultural decline eventually results from the interaction of few underlying driving forces acting on...
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Regional disparity of factor endowment and agricultural labor productivity in China
Xiangfei, XIN; Xiaoyun, LIU - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 3 (2008) 3, pp. 380-409
enlargement of regional labor productivity disparity. Based on the traditional decomposition technique for the research of … productivity, and gives corresponding reasons. It is shown that, factor endowment disparity is an important reason which affects … the agricultural labor productivity of different regions in China; it explains 38.26% of the agricultural labor …
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