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Trade and Development When Exports Lack Diversification: A Case Study From Malawi

Persaud, Suresh Chand; Meade, Birgit Gisela Saager - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009

analysis uses Malawi, a country that earns most of its foreign exchange from tobacco, as a case study of export concentration … and heavy exposure to volatility. The econometric results suggest that the decline in Malawi’s gross domestic product (GDP … yield and improvements in marketing efficiency, however, can help buffer Malawi’s GDP from variability in export revenues. …

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Hog Options: Contract Redesign and Market Efficiency

Urcola, Hernan A.; Irwin, Scott H. - 2010

This article tests the efficiency of the hog options market and assesses the impact of the 1996 contract redesign on efficiency. We find that the hog options market is efficient, but some options yielded excess returns during the live hogs period but not during the lean hogs period. Our findings...

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Optimal Coverage Level Choice with Individual and Area Plans of Insurance

Bulut, Harun; Collins, Keith J.; Zacharias, Thomas P. - 2011

We theoretically examine a farmer’s coverage demand with area and individual insurance plans as either separate or integrated options. The individual and area losses are assumed to be imperfectly and positively correlated. With actuarially fair rates, the farmer will fully insure with the...

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2009

Includes cover page, journal info, contents page, and editorial information

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An Economic Risk Analysis of Tillage and Cropping Systems on the Arkansas Grand Prairie

Hignight, Jeffrey A.; Watkins, K. Bradley; Anders, Merle M. - 2010

No-till (NT) has been shown to reduce fuel, labor, and machinery costs compared to conventional-till (CT) but very few rice producers in Arkansas practice NT. The low adoption rate is most likely due to difficulties in management but also limited information on the profitability and risk of NT....

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Agricultural Arbitrage, Adjustment Costs, and the Intensive Margin

Tack, Jesse B.; LaFrance, Jeffrey T. - 2010

Farmland and capital are an important and rapidly expanding component of the agriculturaleconomy, and empirical evidence suggests that these assets are quasi-fixed in that adjustment costs are incurred when holdings are altered. Increased interest in the rate of return for investing in farmland...

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A Return of the Threshing Ring? A Case Study of Machinery and Labor-Sharing in Midwestern Farms

Artz, Georgeanne M.; Colson, Gregory; Ginder, Roger G. - 2010

Machinery-sharing provides an alternative for smaller producers to obtain the efficiencies of large farming operations and remain competitive in an increasingly concentrated agricultural industry. This research uses a multiple case study design to examine the motivations for sharing equipment...

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The effects of weather risks on micro-regional agricultural insurance premiums in Hungary

Kemeny, Gabor; Varga, Tibor; Fogarasi, Jozsef; Nemes, Attila - In: Studies in Agricultural Economics 115 (2013) 1

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Facilitating access to rural services in Vietnam: The invisible social capital link

Hoang Dinh, Quoc; Dufhues, Thomas; Buchenrieder, Gertrud - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...

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In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 43 (2014) 2

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