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paper evaluates the impacts of a toxic algae bloom contamination event on demand for unaffected shellfish. As an empirical … example of the economic losses the shellfish industry experiences for these events, demand for mussels in Montreal is … closed fishing grounds, losses from human illness, and losses due to a decline in demand for the affected products. This …
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salmon market. The Japanese market fits the characteristics described above in that inventoried holdings of frozen salmon are … established to a large extent from imports during a relatively brief period corresponding to concentrated runs of sockeye salmon …
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This paper determines the demand for a forestry program amongst rural households in western Kenya. It is based on a … elicit farmers’ preferences. Demand is measured in terms of additional number of trees that a household is willing to plant … all found to be significant. Increase in price of a seedling by 1Ksh reduced demand by nine seedlings, while addition of …
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This paper determines the demand for a forestry program amongst rural households in western Kenya. It is based on a … elicit farmers’ preferences. Demand is measured in terms of additional number of trees that a household is willing to plant … all found to be significant. Increase in price of a seedling by 1Ksh reduced demand by nine seedlings, while addition of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979675
A meta-analysis of reported water demand elasticities shows that publication selection bias results in water demand … elasticity estimate drops to -.08%. Indoor water demand is almost perfectly inelastic. Water demands and their elasticities are … heterogeneous in specific uses and locations. Water demand elasticities vary by location, water use type, econometric approach and …
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This study focuses on the problem of water use by new upstream commercial tree plantations where fully-committed water entitlements are already held and traded among downstream sectors (urban water, wetlands and agricultural industries). High tree product prices strongly incentivise expansion of...
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This paper analyses the economics of biofuel production and the implications that the accelerating growth in biofuel production in many countries could have on agricultural markets. It shows that production costs of ethanol and biodiesel differ significantly across countries and feedstock crops....
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This study examines the dynamic effects of grain prices and energy prices on catfish feed prices and the price of food-sized catfish at the farm level. Using the autoregressive distributed lag model and bounds testing procedure, a long-run relationship between feed and farm prices and their...
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water demand price elasticities are slightly higher (more elastic) thanprevious study in Perth, but broadly in line with … 2005. After deriving the consumer’s water demand under anon-linear budget constraint, we estimate the water demand model …
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Recent increases in the price of crude oil have led to a rise in the prominence of corn-based ethanol as an alternative source of energy. As a result linkages have been established between commodity and energy prices. The aim of this study is to determine if soybeans, corn, wheat, oil, and...
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