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Theory suggests that new market entrants play a special role for the creation of new technological pathways required …
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leading to distortionary policy interventions. -- Entrepreneurial Choice ; Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Neoclassical …We review and evaluate some recent contributions on the modeling of entrepreneurship within a neoclassical framework … describe it. However, each modeling attempt focuses only on one specific feature of entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurial …
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This paper reports the survey findings that rice value chains are transforming in Bangladesh and India. The main …, quite small in the rice value chain, except for the Government of India's purchases from mills. Fifth, the indirect roles of …
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India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw …-scarce, food-importing country, India has emerged as a grain-surplus and a net grain-exporting country. The production base is … in the godowns of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and its nominated state agencies, raising questions about the …
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Food Corporation of India's (FCI's) procurement volume is driven by the production level and the difference between the MSP … and market price. The signs of the estimated price elasticities of demand are consistent with the theory; however, for …
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Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...
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This paper serves to disentangle the complex system of Indian food policies related to wheat and rice procurement, storage, distribution and trade. Using nationally aggregated time series data, these policies are econometrically analysed. Based on the estimation results, their market...
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Since the early 2000s, many Indian states started reforming their agricultural marketing policies and allowed private traders to buy directly from farmers outside the state-regulated market system. The experience of these states during the period 2000 - 2012 can shed light on the impact of...
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The role of first principles in economics is examined through the lens of dominant methodological approaches of the classical and neoclassical periods. First principles are most clearly displayed in pure deductive systems. The tension between first principles as the basis for deductivist...
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theory ; knowledge diffusion ; networks. …
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