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The Role of Risk in the Decision to Produce Post-Decoupling - A Stochastic Budgeting Example
Thorne, Fiona S.; Hennessy, Thia C. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
decoupling of direct payments from production in the EU and in particular, on the role of production risk in the decision making …
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Analysing the Effect of Decoupling on Agricultural Production: Evidence from Irish Dairy Farms using the Olley and Pakes Approach
Kazukauskas, Andrius; Newman, Carol F.; Thorne, Fiona S. - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 59 (2010) 3
Recent reform of the Common Agricultural Policy has led to the decoupling of direct payments to farmers from production … maximization objectives become profit maximizing objectives. In this paper we explore the impact of decoupling on the productivity … effect of decoupling on productivity by controlling for other policy changes that have occurred alongside decoupling. We also …
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Anatomy of Stigmatized Behavior: Peer Influence and Relative Concern
Chen, Xi - 2011
This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.
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The Role of Income Diversification, Transaction Cost and Production Risk in Fertilizer Market Participation
Olale, Edward; Cranfield, John A.L. - 2009
Past agricultural input market participation studies have generally ignored the joint influence of income diversification, transaction cost and production risk on input market participation decisions. This study develops an analytical framework that jointly incorporates the three factors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444756
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Do Consumers Really Care about Biotech Food Label? What Do We Know? What Else Should We Know?
Chen, Xi; Zhong, Funing; Zhou, Bin - 2008
This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445795
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Confirmatory Bias under Food-Borne Risk: A Lab Experiment
Cao, Ying; Just, David R.; Wansink, Brian - 2010
An experiment was conducted to investigate the interaction between consumers’ past eating behaviors, risk perceptions and future information processing procedure. In the study, participants were required to choose whether or not to eat chicken that was potentially be tainted with Avian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446111
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Would Subsidizing a Food Pathogen Vaccine Upset the Food Policy Applecart
Marette, Stephan; Roe, Brian E.; Teisl, Mario F. - 2010
Vaccines against several common foodborne pathogens are being developed and could substantially alter the policy tools available to address foodborne illness. However, little analysis is available to suggest how social welfare would be affected by these new vaccines. To address this void, we use...
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Does Futures Price Volatility Differ Across Delivery Horizon?
Karali, Berna; Dorfman, Jeffrey H.; Thurman, Walter N. - 2009
We study the difference in the volatility dynamics of CBOT corn, soybeans, and oatsfutures prices across different delivery horizons via the smoothed Bayesian estimatorof Karali, Dorfman, and Thurman (2010). We show that the futures price volatilitiesin these markets are affected by the...
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2009
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Segmenting Consumers to Inform Agrifood Value Chain Development in Nepal
Adhikari, Rajendra Prasad; Collins, Ray; Sun, Ximing - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 15 (2012) 4
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