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Measuring Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture : An Equilibrium Perspective on Supply-Side Approaches
Gouel, Christophe - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A popular approach for estimating climate change impacts on agriculture is to rely on supply-side reduced-form regressions. These methods, which include the Ricardian approach, focus on how farmers and agricultural land market react to changes in climatic conditions, under the implicit...
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Estimating the economic effects of deregulation : evidence from the Turkish airline industry
Çetin, Tamer; Eryiğit, Kadir Y. - 2015
This paper mainly studies the effect of deregulation on prices and quantity. For this aim, we employ cointegration … methodology with structural breaks to empirically investigate the simultaneous relationship between deregulation, ticket prices …, and the number of passengers in the Turkish airline industry. The findings confirm that deregulation increases quantity …
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The Effects on the Development and Growth of Firms by Omitting a Regulatory Impact Analysis for Legacy Contracts that Participate in the Mexican Electricity Market
Mariscal, Elisa V.; Elbittar, Alexander; Cortes, Josefina - 2021
This paper is a law and economics analysis about the effects of the recent decision to exempt Mexico's energy regulator from a regulatory impact analysis. This occured in spite of receiving an opinion from the competition authority about competition effects of changing the rules of the game for...
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The Impact of Regulatory Change on EU Energy Utility Returns : The Three Liberalization Packages
Tulloch, Daniel J. - 2017
The European Union's (EU) energy sector is changing due to major policy reforms. In this article, we examine the impact of major legislative changes which were designed to induce competition in the energy sector: the three liberalization packages. Competition was expected to benefit the industry...
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When Does Regulation Distort Costs? Lessons from Fuel Procurement in U.S. Electricity Generation
Cicala, Steve - 2013
Under what conditions does cost-of-service regulation lead firms to distort costs? This paper analyzes changes in fuel procurement practices by coal- and natural gas-fired electricity generating plants in the United States following state-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation...
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Market and welfare effects of mandatory country-of-origin labeling in the US specialty crops sector : an application to fresh market apples
Plastina, Alejandro; Giannakas, Kōnstantinos; Pick, … - In: Southern economic journal 77 (2011) 4, pp. 1044-1069
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Do development projects link smallholders to markets?
Ebata, Ayako; Hüttel, Silke - 2015
The objective of this paper is to understand the mechanisms by which development projects facilitate market linkage of smallholder farmers based on panel data from Nicaragua. We find that activities related to entrepreneurial practices have positive and statistically significant effect on...
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Design and implementation of food-import related regulations : experiences from some regional trade agreements
Lampe, Martin von; Jeong, Hyunchul - 2013
This report looks at procedures and processes related to non-tariff measures in agricultural trade. Based on the prior that countries are likely to make efforts to reduce the trade hindering effects of domestic food regulation within regional trade agreements, we focus on three different RTAs,...
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Competitive pressure and technology adoption : evidence from a policy reform in Western Canada
Ferguson, Shon; Olfert, Rose - 2013
We measure the impact of the removal of a railway transportation subsidy on the adoption of technology for Western Canadian farms, using a unique combination of Census and freight rate data. We exploit the large regional variation in these one-time freight rate increases in order to identify...
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Quantitative analysis of the impacts of Croatia's agricultural trade policy on the agri-food sector
Weingarten, Peter - 2003
Croatia recently signed several trade liberalisation agreements. The cornerstones of its trade policy are WTO membership, the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU and Croatia's application of membership as well as bilateral free trade agreements within the Stability Pact for South...
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