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Researchers believe that rice in developed countries such as Japan became an inferior good a few decades ago. This study employs the flexible complete demand system for the recent cross-sectional data in Japan. Our results clearly show that rice in Japan is a normal good contrary to the...
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Agricultural insurance in Ukraine is mostly offered on the basis of traditional products includingPMCI, named perils and single peril coverage. The index concept was introduced in 2001 thoughuntil 2005 the insurance companies provided index crop insurance through area-based yield indexprogram....
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A number of studies have tested economic models of household decision-making, yet there is no consensus regarding which is most appropriate for practical application. One area where the choice of household decision model has potentially important implications is the valuation of child health or...
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four focus groups conducted with wool producers in regional Western Australia showed that trust, habit and social cohesion …
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uncertainty. In our explorative study based on focus groups in Norway and Germany, consumers’ attitudes to purchasing of seafood … frozen fish very seldom entails notions of risk, purchasing of fresh fish evokes scepticism and uncertainty. We discuss … strategies among consumers for coping with uncertainty, and find that consumers discern between various types of outlets in order …
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abatement investment and taxes when the cost of the environmental regulation varies spatially under uncertainty. It contributes … environmental regulation uncertainty. An increase in the cost of the environmental regulation moves a risk-averse firm closer to the …. Uncertainty about environmental regulations in the form of the abatement investment and taxes also leads a risk-averse firm to …
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Risk and uncertainty in a water market will generate trading patterns that differ from those expected under conditions …
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most economic situations, uncertainty crucially affects also bargaining processes. Therefore, in our analysis, we introduce … uncertainty over the size of the pies to be shared and assess the impacts on players’ strategic behaviour. Our results confirm … that uncertainty crucially affects players’ behaviour and modifies the likelihood of a self-enforcing agreement to emerge …
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The consumer perception of the relation between food and health is increased his importance. This situation generates business opportunities, when his effect is positive (for example "functional food"), or limitations or reductions in the markets (for example "food with risk perception"). This...
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Overall wine consumption in Spain is decreasing while, at the same time,Designation of Origin (DO) wine consumption is increasing gradually. This studyexamines Spanish DO wine consumer behaviour through stated preferences (SP) andrevealed preferences (RP) data. Part-worth utilities are...
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