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Worldwide Acreage and Yield Response to International Price Change and Volatility : A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis for Wheat, Rice, Corn, and Soybeans
Haile, Mekbib; Kalkuhl, Matthias; von Braun, Joachim - 2015
This article estimates a worldwide aggregate supply response for key agricultural commodities — wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans — by employing a newly-developed multi-country, crop-calendar-specific, seasonally disaggregated model with price changes and price volatility applied accordingly....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014135846
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Institutional Constraints and Deforestation : An Application to Mexico
Barbier, Edward B. - 2002
Following North (1990), this paper hypothesizes that effective rural institutions may impose additional costs on tropical deforestation through agricultural conversion. This allows a formal agricultural household analysis of institutional constraints on deforestation, and therefore a method of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119390
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Farm Productivity and Market Structure. Evidence from Cotton Reforms in Zambia
Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2006
This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since 1977. Following liberalization, the sector adopted an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063309
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Farm productivity and market structure : evidence from cotton reforms in Zambia
Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003168269
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Farm productivity and market structure : evidence from cotton reforms in Zambia
Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2005
This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since 1977. Following liberalization, the sector adopted an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610940
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Price and income elasticities of residential water demand : why empirical estimates differ
Dalhuisen, Jasper M.; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, … - 2001
.Information on the determinants of consumer demand is of pivotal importance for the efficiency and efficacy ofpublic and private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398958
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A Comment on 'Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings'
Atlas, Mark K. - 2017
This paper offers comments on a paper recently posted on the Social Science Research Network, “Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings.” Basically, the paper purported to measure the impacts on property values and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157492
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Water Demand under Alternative Price Structures
Olmstead, Sheila M.; Hanemann, W. Michael; Stavins, … - 2007
We estimate the price elasticity of water demand with household-level data, structurally modeling the piecewise-linear budget constraints imposed by increasing-block pricing. We develop a mathematical expression for the unconditional price elasticity of demand under increasing-block prices and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064430
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Measuring the integration of staple food markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : heterogeneous infrastructure and cross border trade in the East African community
Ihle, Rico; Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan von; Zorya, Sergiy I. - 2011
market is isolated from the rest of East Africa and internally fragmented. -- border effect ; spatial market integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011814
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An Investigation into the Spatial Rice Market Integration in Bangladesh : Application of Vector Error Correction Approach
Prince, Ehsanur Rauf; Barmon, Basanta Kumar; Islam, Teresa - 2023
Market integration is a metric for market efficiency, notably pricing efficiency. This paper examined the type and … degree of market integration in Bangladesh using latest available weekly rice market price data from the six district markets …, however, indicate that there is only a weak transmission of price changes from one district market to another within the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262592