The Uganda government has since 1987 initiated a sequence of tax reforms to address the fiscal challenges facing the country. This paper uses a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the welfare effects of tax reforms on households and the impact of these challenges on production...

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This paper develops a theoretically consistent behavioral model of farmer decision-making that allows for analysis of the relative impacts of the determinants of SSI value. The model departs from previous literature by assuming that SSI reduces uncertainty, but not eliminate it. Results show...

Food risks may be caused by moral hazard, i.e. by opportunisticbehaviour of upstream sellers who exploit the fact that many foodproduct qualities remain uncertain to downstream buyers in thecourse of conventional market transactions (credence qualities).Due to this lack of market transparency...

The importance of organizational issues to assess the success of international development project has not beenfully considered yet. An analysis of the literature on the project success definition, focused on the successcriteria and success factors, was carried out by surveying the contribution...

Fresh fruits are always recommended as ingredients in healthiest diets. However, there is a tendency forconsumers to move their consumption towards transformed fruits, which are integrated in many food products.Quite commonly fresh fruits are difficult to handle and store but they also do not...

Research on organizational and inter‐organizational trust has become an important field in management andmarketing literature, as it is perceived as a pivotal aspect of business transactions. However, clarifications arestill needed on the issue of whom we trust; is the person whom we are...

In the absence of reliable a priori information, choosing the appropriate theoretical model to describe anindustry’s behavior is a critical issue for empirical studies about market power. A wrong choice may result inmodel misspecification and the conclusions of the empirical analysis may be...

The debate about the governance of complex systems of production represents a rich branchof the literature of applied organization theory. The particular application to agro‐relatednetworks is a relevant example since agriculture plays new roles in modern society. The coreof the analysis is...

Since 2005, the implementation of a traceability system is mandatory to all European food chain operators. Thebalance of costs to build and maintain the traceability system and benefits of traceability depends on the firm'straceability objectives and its resources, as reflected in...