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Price and Profit Regulation in Developing and Transition Economies, Methods Used and Problems Faced: A Survey of the Regulators

Kirkpatrick, Colin; Parker, David; Zhang, Yin-Fang - Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), … - 2004

Rate of return or cost of service regulation was the traditional means by which governments, especially in the USA …, regulated profitability and prices in privately-owned public utility businesses. However, rate of return regulation was … the difficulties that their regulators perceive in operating profit and price regulation regimes. …

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Lithuania's food demand during economic transition

Hossain, Ferdaus; Jensen, Helen H. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 23 (2000) 1

The linear approximate version of the almost ideal demand system (LA-AIDS) model is estimated using data from the Lithuanian household budget survey (HBS) covering the period from July 1992 to December 1994. Price and real expenditure elasticities for 12 food groups were estimated based on the...

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Does Limited Access at School Result in Compensation at Home? The Effect of Soft Drink Bans in Schools on Purchase Patterns Outside of Schools

Huang, Rui; Kristin, Kiesel - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010

downward trend in households with and without children, as well as in states with and without regulation. Controlling for …

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Demand Constraints and New Demands: Regulations, Markets and Institutions Efficiency

Carvalho, Bernardo Reynolds Pacheco de - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2014

Institutions “vis a vis” regulation practices directed to improve economic efficiency subject to demand behavior in a country case …

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Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector

Saenger, Christoph; Qaim, Matin; Torero, Maximo; … - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2012

In emerging markets for high-value food products in developing countries, processing companies search for efficient ways to source raw material of consistent quality. One widely embraced approach is contract farming. But relatively little is known about the appropriate design of contracts,...

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Ethanol and Meat in the U.S.: A Multi-Market Analysis

Bhattacharya, Suparna; Azzam, Azzeddine M.; Mark, Darrell R. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009

Since corn is the primary feedstock used for producing ethanol in the U.S., and ethanol production yields byproducts that can be fed to livestock in combination with corn, addressing the effect of ethanol production on meat markets should consider not only demand and supply interdependence...

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STRATEGIC CHOICES IN PRODUCE MARKETING: ISSUES OF COMPATIBLE USE AND EXCLUSION COSTS

Codron, Jean-Marie; Sterns, James A.; Reardon, Thomas - 2003

Fresh produce suppliers in Europe and the United States use a mix of price and non-price marketing strategies. This paper shows that these strategies create, using Mancur Olson's terms, two collective goods: overall consumer confidence in the market's ability to deliver credence attributes, and...

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The Development of a Quality Scale to Measure the Impact of Quality on Supermarket Fruit Demand

Durham, Catherine A.; McFetridge, Marc V.; Johnson, Aaron J. - 2005

This research examines how fluctuations in quality affect consumer expenditures for fresh fruit at the retail level. This paper examines how consumers' purchasing behaviors react to changes in fresh fruit quality by quantifying quality characteristics based on weekly observations. A four-point...

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EXPORT DEMAND FOR U.S. ALMONDS: IMPACTS OF U.S. EXPORT PROMOTION PROGRAMS

Onunkwo, Izuchukwu M.; Epperson, James E. - 2001

The purpose of this study was to estimate the impact of the major factors affecting the export demand for U.S. almonds in Asia and the E.U. which together import about 93% of U.S. almond exports. The primary objective pertained to the impacts of federal promotion programs on the foreign demand...

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Causality between food prices and other goods prices: Evidence from the EU member-states

Voyiatzis, A.; Pallis, D.; Katsouli, E. - 2002

The purpose of this paper was to investigate and measure the causation between food consumer price index and all-other-items consumer price index in 14 European Union member-states, using monthly data covering the period from 1985:12 to 1998:12. For this purpose a four stages approach was...

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