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Projected refined product balances in key Latin American countries: A preliminary examination
2009
Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....
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Risk Preferences and Demand for Insurance in Peru: A Field Experiment
Galarza, Francisco B.; Carter, Michael R. - 2010
This paper reports the results of behavioral economic experiments conducted in Peru toexamine the relationship amongst …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446167
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ACEITAÇÃO E SEGMENTAÇÃO DO MERCADO DE PRODUTOS DERIVADOS DA CARNE DE PERU
Pulici, Rodrigo; Alves, Flavio Rocha; Gameiro, Augusto … - 2008
- de certa forma - este desempenho. Como o frango de corte, grande parte da produção de carne de peru é exportada. Todavia … de peru, que se apresenta bastante baixo, apesar do crescimento nos últimos cinco anos. A presente pesquisa analisou a … estratégia de segmentação do mercado dos produtos à base de carne de peru, o comportamento de compra baseado nos preços desses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446738
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The French Biodiesel Production: An Assessment of the Impacts and Interaction Effects of Policy Instruments
Doumax, Virginie - 2010
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/18/10.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446151
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Carbon Emissions, Renewable Electricity and Profits: Comparing Alternative Policies to Promote Anaerobic Digesters on Dairies
Key, Nigel; Sneeringer, Stacy E. - 2011
Biogas recovery systems that use methane from manure to generate electricity have not been widely adopted in U.S. mainly because the costs of constructing and maintaining these systems have exceeded the value of the benefits provided. Climate change mitigation and renewable energy policies could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446332
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Making Economic Sense Out of Unisex Life Insurance (Or the Difference Between Cost and Value and Why It Matters to Real People)
Booth, Richard A., Marbury Research Professor of Law - 2002
, to charge men and women the same price for life insurance would constitute a subsidy running from women (who would pay … to buy something, the idea that there is a subsidy implicit in unisex insurance rates is mistaken. For the consumer, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432041
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Rice Trade Policies and Their Implications for Food Security
Durand-Morat, Alvaro; Wailes, Eric J. - 2011
There is a strong linkage between the behavior of the rice market and the state of food security inmany regions around the world, particularly in Asia, as made evident in the 2007-08 commoditycrisis. Rice is a staple for the majority of the population in Asia, where roughly 60% of the close...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444346
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Staple food prices in Kenya
Ariga, Joshua; Jayne, Thomas S.; Njukia, Stephen - 2010
Prepared for the COMESA policy seminar on“Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options”,Maputo, Mozambique, 25-26 January 2010under the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Marketing Project (AAMP)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445988
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Are Staple Food Markets in Africa Efficient? Spatial Price Analyses and Beyond
Rashid, Shahidur; Minot, Nicholas - 2010
Paper to be presented at the Comesa policy seminar“Food price variability: Causes, consequences, and policy options"on 25-26 January 2010 in Maputo, Mozambiqueunder the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Markets Project (AAMP)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445989
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Potential Implications of a Special Safeguard Mechanism in the WTO: the Case of Wheat
Hertel, Thomas W.; Martin, William J.; Leister, Amanda M. - 2010
The Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) was a key issue in the July 2008 failure to reach agreement in the WTO negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda. It includes both price (P-SSM) and quantity-triggered measures (Q-SSM). This paper uses a stochastic simulation model of the world wheat...
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