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How can we estimate the negative externalities of agriculture at the national level, and attribute these to specific … inputs are the German economic accounts for agriculture, farm structural survey and market statistics, as well as …
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means of achieving food security. Restrictive trade policies, including specific tariffs on rice and sugar, and quantitative … pristine areas in an attempt to maintain self-sufficiency. On the other hand, more open trade may offer better options to … analyze the efficiency and distributional impacts of these agricultural trade policies. The results suggest that removing or …
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Trade negotiators are concerned about the possible negative effects of trade liberalisation on employment in specific … sector adjust to trade shocks. In this application, a global computable general equilibrium model is used to determine trade … levels in Indonesian agriculture. Employment tends to move with output in the primary agricultural sector where capital …
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. Deterministic and probabilistic models reveal that inherent trade-offs exist in either making the transportation companies (an ETO …
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Background: Health-care institutions have looked to business for models to respond to the requirement for reform. This has changed the perspective of institutions that were founded on charitable principles, and managed with liberal employment policies and deficit budgeting. Using lesions from...
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The following appendices have been prepared by a team of subject-matter experts at theSchool of Public Policy at George Mason University (GMU) under a contract with thePostal Regulatory Commission (PRC).Section 702 of the Postal Enhancement and Accountability Act (PAEA) required thePostal...
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In the Fall of 1978, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) initiated a program for the design and evaluation of alternate cogeneration systems. The primary objective of the study is to analyze the overall system value of cogeneration. A portion of the study involved the development of a...
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complements.We estimate a structural continuous-choice demand model following Pinkseet al. (2002), Pinkse and Slade (2004), and …
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The Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) aims to increasecompetition and to foster client protection in the European financialmarket. Among other provisions, it abolishes the concentration rule andchallenges the market ower of existing trading venues. The directiveintroduces venue...
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Simple time trend variables in factor demand models can be statistically powerful variables, but may tell the … adoption may be included in the traditional factor demand model to economically model specific factor biased technical change … results of including these variables in a tradition econometric factor demand model, which is based on the Generalized …
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