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TRANSACTION FREQUENCY, INVENTORIES AND HEDGING IN COMMODITY PROCESSING
Dahlgran, Roger A. - 2004
This study examines hedging strategies for commodity processors generally and soybean crushers specifically. Processors require hedging strategies built around processing multiple batches each year. Each batch requires the purchase of inputs, transformation of inputs into outputs, and sale of...
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A Comparative Evaluation of Cash Flow and Batch Profit Hedging Effectiveness in Commodity Processing
Dahlgran, Roger A. - 2006
an agribusiness firm to use cash flow as a plant-investment criterion and then to completely discard cash flow in favor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442978
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Testing Theories of Cooperative Arrangements in Agricultural Markets: Results from Producer Groups in Poland
Banaszak, Ilona - 2007
The main question posed in the paper asks why do some cooperative arrangements in agricultural markets survive and succeed and others fail? We define “success” and factors affecting success of cooperation using transaction costs theory and game theory. Transaction costs theory provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445139
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Strategic Interactions, Risks and Coordination Costs in Food Marketing Channels: The Mediating Role of Futures Markets
Kuwornu, John K.M.; Kuiper, W. Erno; Pennings, Joost M.E.; … - 2006
We examine the interaction of marketing channel members and the influence of these interactions on incentives …, coordination costs, and risk allocation strategies in a food marketing channel. For this purpose we specify a three-stage principal …-agent marketing channel model involving producers, wholesalers, retailers and a futures market. We compare the situation with and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445153
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Promoting the Kenyan Potato Value Chain: Can Contract Farming Help Build Trust and Reduce Transaction Risks?
Hoeffler, Heike - 2006
African economies are increasingly confronted with changing food and commodity markets, due to globalisation, economic liberalisation and urbanisation. Subsequently, consumer preferences change. This poses new opportunities but also challenges to small-scale producers, traders and processors...
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OKONOMETRISCHE ANALYSE VON MARKTMACHT AUF DEM UKRAINISCHEN MARKT FUR ROHMILCH
Perekhozhuk, Oleksandr; Grings, Michael - 2007
Der Forschungsschwerpunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit liegt in der empirischen Untersuchung der Nachfragemacht der ukrainischen Milchverarbeitungsindustrie nach Rohmilch. Für die ökonometrische Analyse der Preisbildung auf dem ukrainischen Markt für Rohmilch wurde ein sektorales...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445162
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Food retailing and prices in Slovenia
Bojnec, Stefan - 2006
of supermarket s and hypermarket s have had impactson market structures and rationalization of marketing activities … onincreasing food chains efficiency by squeezing structures in consumer prices, including forfarmers, processors and marketing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445555
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FREE TRADE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH RESOURCES OF IRAN AGRICULTURE
Koshteh, M.H. Karim; Karbasi, Ali Reza - 2003
Free trading is considered as index of global economy and factor economic growth in many countries. In this study along with recognition of growth resources, those factors such as surplus value, Labour, capital, energy, government planning and expenditure which playing the main role in economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442422
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SOCIAL EXCHANGE RATES, MERCOSUR AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Ferreira, Leo da Rocha - 2003
The path towards a common market requires an alignment of macroeconomic policies. In the case of the MERCOSUL member countries, the observed disparities in the exchange, tax and monetary policies constitute major imbalances and impede future international economic integration. Apart from...
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A Reappraisal of the Role of Agriculture in Economic Growth in Melanesian Countries
Fleming, Euan M.; Fleming, Pauline - 2006
Fortunes in the agricultural sectors of four of the largest South Pacific countries are traced in recent decades by estimating the single factoral terms of trade index. The single factoral terms of trade are measured for agriculture in four Melanesian countries-Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon...
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