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This paper reviews and interprets existing information and transaction costs theories of firm organization and entrepreneur’s role in order to provide a consistent explanation of the farm-sector dynamics in former communist countries. Important determinants of farm restructuring are economic...
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Agriculture is an important economic sector in all countries, being the main source of food for the population and a …
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This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and productivity growth in the long run. From a long-run perspective, one can see that gains from competition-enhancing regulatory reform are likely to exceed static gains observed in the short run since firms will...
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This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and productivity growth in the long run. From a long-run perspective, one can see that gains from competition-enhancing regulatory reform are likely to exceed static gains observed in the short run since firms will...
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Over the last two decades EU countries experienced diverging productivity growthdevelopments. By examining the sources of EU countries growth drivers on the sectorallevel, the paper takes a new look on the influence of innovations. While standard neoclassicalNon-ICT capital deepening turns out...
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The issues related to proper assessments of the competitiveness of farming enterprises in general and of different type and locations has been among the most topical for academicians, agro-business managers, interest groups, administrators, politicians, international organizations, and the...
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agriculture in order to secure a food secure future and how this can be done in a way that protects privacy, a recurrent issue in …
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productivity, and improved private investment in agriculture. The effects of external shocks transmitted dynamically through … private investment to agriculture terms of trade is strong and has in turn a positive effect on aggregate agricultural output … critical for enhanced private fixed capital investment and sustained long term aggregate productivity growth of agriculture …
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The study focused on the analysis of production and marketing constraints of tomato among rural farmers in Talensi Nabdam district of Upper East Region of Ghana. A total of 100 respondents were interviewed using questionnaire. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics to describe the...
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Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...
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