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Agricultural technology adoption, commercialization and smallholder rice farmers' welfare in rural Nigeria
Awotide, Bola Amoke; Karimov, Aziz A.; Diagne, Aliou - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 4 (2016) 3, pp. 1-24
This study assessed the determinants of intensity of adoption of Improved Rice Varieties (IRVs) and the effect of … consists of crosssectional data of 600 rice farmers selected randomly from three notable rice producing States in Nigeria. The … variables that positively and significantly influenced the intensity of IRVs adoption include income from rice production …
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Machinery structure, machinery subsidies, and agricultural productivity: Evidence from China
Meng, Meng; Yu, Leng; Yu, Xiaohua - In: Agricultural Economics 55 (2024) 2, pp. 223-246
particular emphasis on the effects of capacity structure and subsidy policy. The article estimates a Translog production function … could impact agricultural production by inducing the reallocation of other input factors. Along with the upsizing of farming …
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Assessing the extent of strategic manipulation: The average vote example
Renault, Régis; Trannoy, Alain - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 4, pp. 497-513
The average voting procedure reflects the weighted average of expressed opinions in [0,1]. Participants typically behave strategically. We evaluate the discrepancy between the average taste and the average vote. If the population is sufficiently large, it is possible to construct approximations...
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South African food security and climate change: Agriculture futures
Dube, Sikhalazo; Scholes, Robert J.; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-35, pp. 1-54
The projected changes in planted area, yield per area, net exports/imports and prices for five major agricultural crops in South Africa were simulated using the projections of four Global Circulation Models (GCMs) under three socio-economic scenarios. The GCM projections show consistent strong...
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Die Grundlagen der Mechanismus-Design-Theorie: Zum Nobelpreis an L. Hurwicz, E. S. Maskin und R. B. Myerson
Hehenkamp, Burkhard - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 87 (2007) 11, pp. 768-772
Der Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften 2007 wurde an Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin und Roger B. Myerson für Ihre grundlegenden Beiträge zur Mechanismus-Design-Theorie vergeben. Worin liegt der Erfolg der Mechanismus-Design-Theorie begründet? Was sind ihre Perspektiven?
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Optimal voluntary vaccination of adults and adolescents can help eradicate Hepatitis B in China
Scheckelhoff, Kristen; Ejaz, Ayesha; Erovenko, Igor V.; … - In: Games 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1-13
Hepatitis B (HBV) is one of the most common infectious diseases, with a worldwide annual incidence of over 250 million people. About one-third of the cases are in China. While China made significant efforts to implement a nationwide HBV vaccination program for newborns, a significant number of...
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Partial order games
Zahoransky, Valeria; Gutierrez, Julian; Harrenstein, Paul; … - In: Games 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-49
We introduce a non-cooperative game model in which players' decision nodes are partially ordered by a dependence relation, which directly captures informational dependencies in the game. In saying that a decision node v is dependent on decision nodes v1,…,vk, we mean that the information...
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Modeling multicriteria group decision making as games from enhanced pairwise comparisons
Leoneti, Alexandre Bevilacqua; Gomes, Luiz Flávio … - In: Operations Research Perspectives 8 (2021), pp. 1-7
This research aimed to replace the pairwise comparison function used in Leoneti [2016] with a new function inspired on the exponential model of prospect theory and to perform a comparative analysis to verify the hypothesis that a better performance of the utility function would be possible from...
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The Nash equilibrium in the policy mix model for Czechia, Hungary, and Romania
Stawska, Joanna; Malaczewski, Maciej; Malaczewska, Paulina - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-14
The aim of the paper is to compare the sensitivity of a government's fiscal policy and a central bank's monetary policy, which are in Nash equilibrium in the case of a non-cooperative game between the government and the central bank in Czechia, Hungary, and Romania. The analysis for each country...
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Dinámica de inversión y competencia en generación eléctrica en un escenario de liberalización en el Perú: La importancia de los contratos de largo plazo
Rivasplata Ramírez, Arnold Rúben; García Carpio, … - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 28 (2019), pp. 224-242
We analyze the behavior of electricity generation groups that make investment and production decisions in a liberalized market scenario by introducing long-term contracts, in a context where there is a high level of market concentration. In this way, a dynamic deterministic model of imperfect...
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