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Traditional productivity measures have been much less prevalent than other measures of economic and biological performance in fisheries economics. It has been increasingly recognized, however, that mod eling and measuring fisheries’ production relationships is central to understanding and...
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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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Market interactions between the common-property commercial fishery and (1) competitive aquaculturists and (2) a dominant-firm aquaculturist are modeled. It is found that the entry of a competitive aquaculturist increases natural fish stocks, reduces price, and increases total supply. If...
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This paper considers the effects of granting a fishermen's sales organization exclusive rights to sell unprocessed fish. On the assumption that the fishermen's monopolyis able to discriminate between plants and end use alternatives in its pricing policy, the conditions for profit maximization...
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Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the...
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The Productivity Commission Staff Working Paper, ‘Precaution and the Precautionary Principle: two Australian case studies’ by Annette Weier and Paul Loke, was released in September 2007.The Precautionary Principle was conceived as a response to the inherent difficulties faced by decision...
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Replaced with revised version of paper 09/23/11.
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Guided by the frame work of a household model under credit market failure, this paper aims at investigating the impact of access to credit on the adoption of hybrid maize among households that vary in their credit constraints. The data used in the study is from Malawi collected by the...
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Market orientation (MO) – which is the propensity of a firm to collect and utilise information from the market – is an important leverage of competitive advantage. This paper helps to better understand why some owner-managers engage with market intelligence why others simply do not. The...
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